87:1 A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite.

87:2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

87:3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

87:4 I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

87:5 Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

87:6 The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

87:7 The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.