Psalm 87:1 He has founded his city on the holy mountain.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. A song. He has founded his city on the holy mountain.

English Standard Version
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song. On the holy mount stands the city he founded;

New American Standard Bible
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

King James Bible
[[A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.]] His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. His foundation is on the holy mountains.

International Standard Version
God's foundation is in the holy mountains.

American Standard Version
His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:

Darby Bible Translation
{Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song.} His foundation is in the mountains of holiness.

Young's Literal Translation
By sons of Korah. -- A Psalm, a song. His foundation is in holy mountains.

Cross References

Psalm 11:3
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Psalm 48:1
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

Psalm 68:16
Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yes, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

Psalm 78:69
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he has established for ever.

Psalm 121:1
I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from where comes my help.

Isaiah 14:32
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.

Jeremiah 31:23
Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.

Daniel 9:16
O LORD, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

87:1-3 Christ himself is the Foundation of the church, which God has laid. Holiness is the strength and firmness of the church. Let us not be ashamed of the church of Christ in its meanest condition, nor of those that belong to it, since such glorious things are spoken of it. Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, even Jesus Christ. The glorious things spoken of Zion by the Spirit, were all typical of Christ, and his work and offices; of the gospel church, its privileges and members; of heaven, its glory and perfect happiness.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

PSALM 87

Ps 87:1-7. This triumphal song was probably occasioned by the same event as the forty-sixth [see on [618]Ps 46:1, title]. The writer celebrates the glory of the Church, as the means of spiritual blessing to the nation.

1. His—that is, God's

foundation—or, what He has founded, that is, Zion (Isa 14:32).

is in the holy mountains—the location of Zion, in the wide sense, for the capital, or Jerusalem, being on several hills.