4/17/11

Psalm 87

A psalm of the sons of Korah. A song.

1 GOD's founded his city upon holy hills.
2 He loves Zion's gates more than all Jacob's homes.
3 O city of God, listen closely I say,
   for glorious things have been spoken of you!

4 I'll make proclamations of Egypt's proud land,
   and Babylon too, as now knowing my grace;
   the land of Phil-lis-tia with Tyre and with Cush-
   of these I will say now: “This one there was born.”

5 For truly of Zion it will be declared:
   “This one there and that one in her have been born.”
   And God the Supreme, in enlarging her thus,
   is he who himself will establish her sure.

6 The LORD, in enrolling the nations of earth,
   will write of each one, “This in Zion was born.”
7 The singers and minstrels will all cry aloud:
   “The springs of salvation are all found in you.”




It can be sung with or without the refrain.

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