Psalm 87:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 The Lord loves the gates[a] of Zion
more than any dwelling in Jacob.
3 Glorious things are said of you,
O city of God!
Selah
II
4 Rahab and Babylon I count
among those who know me.
See, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia,
“This one was born there.”
Footnotes
- 87:2 The gates: the city itself, a common Hebrew idiom.
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