The Book of Psalms

⭑ Catholic Public Domain Version 2009 ⭑

- Chapter 87 -

The Lord loves the gates of Zion

A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Its foundations are in the holy mountains:(a)

the Lord loves the gates of Zion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

Glorious things are being said of you, O City of God.

I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there.(b)

Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.(c)

The Lord will explain, in the writings of peoples and of leaders, about those who have been in her.

For so the dwelling place within you is with all rejoicing.

Footnotes

(a)86:1 The holy mountains:The apostles and prophets. Eph. 2:20.(Challoner)

(b)86:4 Rahab:Egypt, etc. To this Sion, which is the church of God, many shall resort from all nations.(Challoner)

(c)86:5 Shall not Sion say, etc:The meaning is, that Sion, viz., the church, shall not only be able to commemorate this or that particular person of renown born in her, but also to glory in great multitudes of people and princes of her communion; who have been foretold in the writings of the prophets, and registered in the writings of the apostles.(Challoner)