Psalm 87


Psalm 87

A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.
This psalm is an encomium upon mount Zion, as typical of the gospel church. (1.) For the sake of the temple, mount Zion is preferred to every other place in Canaan; as more honoured by God and more delighted in by him, ver. 1-3. (2.) In respect of better inhabitants, greater stability, and more important joys and blessings, the church is preferred to all other nations, ver. 4-7.
While I sing, let me observe the dignity of relation to Jehovah as my God. Let me praise him for founding his church on Jesus the unmoveable Rock of ages, that the gates of hell cannot prevail against her. Let me rejoice in the glorious promises made concerning her, and supplicate the speedy, the remarkable fulfilment thereof. And while I with joy draw water out of her ordinances, her wells of salvation, let me live as an holy, a cheerful member of her society.
1    Upon the hills of holiness
          he his foundation sets.
2    God, more than Jacob's dwellings all,
          delights in Sion's gates.

3    Things glorious are said of thee,
          thou city of the Lord.
4    Rahab and Babel I, to those
          that know me, will record:

     Behold ev'n Tyrus, and with it
          the land of Palestine,
     And likewise Ethiopia;
          this man was born therein.

5    And it of Sion shall be said,
          This man and that man there
     Was born; and he that is most High
          himself shall stablish her.

6    When God the people writes, he'll count
          that this man born was there.
7    There be that sing and play; and all
          my well-springs in thee are.


Psalm 88

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