Psalm 87

Good News Translation

In Praise of Jerusalem^[a]

87 The Lord built his city on the sacred hill;^[b]
²    more than any other place in Israel
    he loves the city of Jerusalem.
³Listen, city of God,
    to the wonderful things he says about you:

⁴“I will include Egypt and Babylonia
when I list the nations that obey me;
the people of Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia^[c]
I will number among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.”

⁵Of Zion it will be said
    that all nations belong there
    and that the Almighty will make her strong.
⁶The Lord will write a list of the peoples
    and include them all as citizens of Jerusalem.
⁷They dance and sing,
    “In Zion is the source of all our blessings.”

Footnotes

Psalm 87:1 HEBREW TITLE: A psalm by the clan of Korah; a song.
Psalm 87:1 See 2.6.
Psalm 87:4 Hebrew Cush: Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman time, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).