Psalm 87:1
New International Version
Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. A song. He has founded his city on the holy mountain.

New Living Translation
On the holy mountain stands the city founded by the LORD.

English Standard Version
On the holy mount stands the city he founded;

Berean Standard Bible
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. He has founded His city on the holy mountains.

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

New King James Version
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

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

NASB 1995
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

NASB 1977
His foundation is in the holy mountains.

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

Amplified Bible
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song. His foundation is on the holy mountain.

Christian Standard Bible
A psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. The city he founded is on the holy mountains.

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

American Standard Version
A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
His foundations are in his holy mountain!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A Psalm of a Song for the sons of Core. His foundations are in the holy mountains.

Contemporary English Version
Zion was built by the LORD on the holy mountain,

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

English Revised Version
A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[By Korah's descendants; a psalm; a song.] [The city] the LORD has founded [stands]on holy mountains.

Good News Translation
The LORD built his city on the sacred hill;

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Literal Standard Version
A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. A SONG. His foundation [is] in holy mountains.

Majority Standard Bible
A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. He has founded His city on the holy mountains.

New American Bible
A psalm of the Korahites. A song. His foundation is on holy mountains, [2] The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than any dwelling in Jacob.

NET Bible
Written by the Korahites; a psalm, a song. The LORD's city is in the holy hills.

New Revised Standard Version
On the holy mount stands the city he founded;

New Heart English Bible
[A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.] His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Webster's Bible Translation
A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

World English Bible
A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

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

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The LORD Loves the Gates of Zion
1A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. He has founded His city on the holy mountains. 2The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.…

Cross References
Psalm 11:3
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?"

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

Psalm 68:16
Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.

Psalm 78:69
He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

Psalm 121:1
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?

Isaiah 14:32
What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge."

Isaiah 28:16
So this is what the Lord GOD says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.


Treasury of Scripture

His foundation is in the holy mountains.

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2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus saith 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 believeth shall not make haste.

Matthew 16:18
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

the holy

Psalm 48:1,2
A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. 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 ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

Psalm 121:1
A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

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Psalm 87
1. The nature and glory of the church
4. The increase, honor, and comfort of the members thereof.














(1) His foundation.--This abrupt commencement with a clause without a verb has led to the conjecture that a line has dropped away. But this is unnecessary if we neglect the accents, and take gates of Zion in apposition with His foundation:

His foundation on the holy hill

Loveth Jehovah, (even) Zion's gates,

More than all Jacob's dwellings.

Here His foundation is equivalent to that which He hath founded, and the gates are put by metonymy for the city itself. (Comp. Jeremiah 14:2.)

With regard to the plural, mountains, it is probably only poetical, though geographically it is correct to speak of Jerusalem as situated on hills. Dean Stanley speaks of "the multiplicity of the eminences" which the city "shares, though in a smaller compass, with Rome and Constantinople" (Sinai and Palestine, p. 177).

Verses 1-3. - The praises of Zion.

(1) She is built upon the holy mountains;

(2) God loves her pre-eminently; and

(3) a glorious future is assigned to her in the counsels of God. Ver. 1. - His foundation is in the holy mountains. God's foundation - the city which he has founded - is "in the holy mountains;" i.e. in the hill country of Judaea, a congeries of mountains, "holy," since they surround the holy city and belong to the "holy land" (Zechariah 2:12).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
A Psalm
מִזְמ֣וֹר (miz·mō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4210: Instrumental music, a poem set to notes

of the sons
לִבְנֵי־ (liḇ·nê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Korah.
קֹ֭רַח (qō·raḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7141: Korah -- an Edomite name, also an Israelite name

A Song.
שִׁ֑יר (šîr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7892: A song, singing

His foundation
יְ֝סוּדָת֗וֹ (yə·sū·ḏā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3248: A foundation

[is] on the holy
קֹֽדֶשׁ׃ (qō·ḏeš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

mountains.
בְּהַרְרֵי־ (bə·har·rê-)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2042: Hill, mountain


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