Psalm 87:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³Zion, you are the city of God,
and wonderful things
are told about you.

⁴Egypt,^[a] Babylonia, Philistia,
    Phoenicia,^[b] and Ethiopia^[c]
are some of those nations
    that know you,
and their people all say,
    “I was born in Zion.”

⁵God Most High will strengthen
the city of Zion.
Then everyone will say,
“We were born here too.”

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Footnotes

87.4 Egypt: The Hebrew text has “Rahab,” the name of a monster that stands for Egypt (see Isaiah 30.7).
87.4 Phoenicia: See the note at 83.7.
87.4 Ethiopia: The Hebrew text has “Cush,” which was a region south of Egypt that included parts of the present countries of Ethiopia and Sudan.