Psalm 87

To the sons of Korah; a psalm a song:

His foundation is in the holy mountains. 
YAHWEH* loves the gates of
Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Glorious things are spoken of you, the city of a god**.
Selah.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me;
behold
Philistia , and Tyre , with Ethiopia ; this man was born there. 
And of
Zion it shall be said, “This and that man was born in her; 
and the highest himself shall establish her.”
YAHWEH will count, when he writes up the people,

that
this man was born there. 
Selah.

And singers as dancers; 
all my springs [of water] are in you.

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* Tetragrammaton YHVH translated as YAHWEH.  

** ELOHIYM is the word used in the text and it has been translated as God, god and gods.  It is BHC's position that in most cases it should be understood in the sense of a "type of entity," i.e., a god (unless used with a plural verb - "gods").

 

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