Verse Psalms 87:5. _THIS AND THAT MAN WAS BORN IN HER_] It will be an honour to any person to have been born in Zion. But how great is the honour to be _born from above_, and be a citizen of the Jerus...
AND OF ZION IT SHALL BE SAID - In respect to Zion; or, in honor of Zion. People shall regard it as a privilege to have been born in Zion. They shall speak of such a birth as a marked and honored disti...
Psalms 87 Zion and Its Coming Glories Another Korah Psalm. Zion is the object of Jehovah's love where He will manifest His glory. Glorious things are spoken of the city of God. This we learn from ma...
LXXXVII. ZION THE MOTHER OF ALL YAHWEH'S PEOPLE. When this Ps. was written, the Jews were scattered everywhere in the known world. But every true Jew recognised Jerusalem as his mother city. The glory...
OF. to. MAN. Hebrew. _'ish_. THE HIGHEST. the MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _'Elyon._ App-4....
The nations of the world shall be enrolled as Zion's children; and Zion shall be glorified by this accession of unnumbered fresh citizens....
The Psalmist speaks, echoing the divine decree from Zion's point of view, dwelling upon the honour which will accrue to Zion by this accession of citizens. Yea, of Zion it shall be said, Each and ev...
THE HIGHEST HIMSELF SHALL ESTABLISH HER— That is what David promised himself; that as he had built the city under the direction of God, and had fixed for the ark a proper habitation in it; so God woul...
PSALMS 87 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Glorious Destiny of Zion as the Metropolis of the Nations. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 87:1-3, Jehovah's Preferential Love for Zion Declared. Stanza II., Psalms 87:4-...
And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. AND OF ZION IT SHALL BE SAID, THIS AND THAT MAN WAS BORN IN HER: AND THE HIGHEST HIMSEL...
THIS AND THAT MAN] RV 'this one and that one.' This and that nation shall be converted to God....
This Ps. expands the thought of Psalms 86:9. Zion is the chosen dwelling of God (Psalms 87:1), the spiritual birthplace of the other nations (Psalms 87:4), and the source of joy to them all ...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE TWO JERUSALEMS PSALMS 87 JESUS SAID, "YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN". (JOHN 3:7)...
AND OF ZION... — This verse must be taken as antithetical to the preceding. The poet claims a prouder boast for natives of Jerusalem, because it was established by the Most High. Render, _But of Zion...
וּֽ לֲ צִיֹּ֨ון ׀ יֵאָמַ֗ר אִ֣ישׁ וְ֭ אִישׁ
Psalms 87:1 ONE clear note sounds in this remarkable psalm. Its single theme is the incorporation of ancestral foes and distant nations with the people of God. Aliens are to be enrolled as home-born c...
CITIZENS OF ZION Psalms 87:1 This psalm blends in one great congregation the ancient foes of Israel and the Chosen People. It is a vision of the Holy Universal Church. The _Selahs_ divide it into th...
This is a prophecy. The singer is looking on. The order of the earthly realisation of the Kingdom of God is seen as established. First, the city is contemplated at the centre of everything, with Jehov...
And of Zion it shall be said, (e) This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. (e) Out of all quarters they will come to the Church, and be counted as citizens....
_Pit. Like a slave confined every night in prison, Exodus xii. 29._...
If, as Mr. Romaine justly concludes, we may, without violence to the original, read this verse - "And of Zion it shall be said, A Person, and a Person shall be born in her; " this plainly intimates th...
5_And it shall be said of Zion, Man and man is born in her. _It is asserted, in the 4th verse, That new citizens shall be gathered into the Church of God from different parts of the world; and here th...
Psalms 87 views Zion as founded of God, a city which has foundations. Men had cities, and boasted of them; but God had a city He founded in the holy mountains. Even here it was not Joseph or the richn...
AND OF ZION IT SHALL BE SAID,.... The same with the city of God, the church before commended: THIS AND THAT MAN WAS BORN IN HER; this and that great man, in opposition to a mean person, in the preced...
And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. Ver. 5. _And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her_] _i.e._ Convert...
_Of Zion_ Concerning the church of God, whether composed of Jews or Gentiles, _it shall be said_ It shall be mentioned by God, and acknowledged by men, as a great and wonderful work of Jehovah, that _...
THE CHURCH OF GOD THE SPIRITUAL BIRTHPLACE OF THE NATIONS. A psalm or song for the sons of Korah, a triumphal hymn in the strain of these inspired singers, celebrating the glory of the Church as the...
And of Zion it shall be said, of the Church itself the statement would be made, THIS AND THAT MAN WAS BORN IN HER, added to her by his spiritual birth; AND THE HIGHEST HIMSELF SHALL ESTABLISH HER, God...
4-7 The church of Christ is more glorious and excellent than the nations of the earth. In the records of heaven, the meanest of those who are born again stand registered. When God renders to every ma...
OF ZION, i.e. of Jerusalem, or the church of God. _It shall be said_; it shall be mentioned by God, as was said, PSALMS 87:4, and it shall be observed and acknowledged by men, as a great and wonderful...
Psalms 87:5 Zion H6726 said H559 (H8735) This H376 born H3205 (H8795) High H5945 establish H3559 ...
CONTENTS: God's favor to Zion and His great love for it. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: God has expressed a particular affection for Jerusalem because there He met and conversed with His peo...
Psalms 87:1. _His foundation is in the holy mountains._ The hills of Zion and Moriah were both holy. The exordium is bold and abrupt. Mystically, the spiritual Zion, built on the foundation of the pro...
_And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her._ THE CHURCH OF TO-DAY I. The chief work and truest dignity of the Church lies in her regeneration and saving energy. In imitation of...
_His foundation is in the holy mountains._ A MATERIAL PORTRAIT OF THE SPIRITUAL CHURCH I. It is glorious in its elevation (Psalms 87:1). The spiritual Church is a city set upon a hill. Though elevat...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 87:1. This is a psalm celebrating Zion as the chosen city of God. It looks forward to people of all nations—even nations that have been Israel’s enemies—becoming citizens of...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 87:4 The second section is startling. One expects a reference to THOSE WHO KNOW ME, but the list is composed of Gentile nations. Yet, THE MOST HIGH HIMSELF WILL ESTABLISH Zion, in...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_A Psalm of Song for the sons of Korah_.” It so far combines the properties of a religious _Psalm_ and a patriotic _song_ that either of the names may with propriety b...
EXPOSITION THIS short psalm, opening with the praise of Zion, or of the Jewish Church (Psalms 87:1), passes into a glorification of the Church universal, when all the nations have come into it (Psalms...
His foundation is in the holy mountains. The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all of the dwellings of Jacob (Psalms 87:1-2). So it's sort of a psalm which extols the city of Jerusalem which is...
Zion — Of Jerusalem, or the church of God. Said — It shall be acknowledged. Man — Heb. Man and man, all sorts of men without difference of nations. Establish — And this shall not be a transient, but a...