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THE LORD SHALL COUNT - That is, God himself will honor those who are
so born. In the previous verse, the effect of such a birth was
described as securing honor from human beings. Here a higher honor i...
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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...
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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...
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WRITETH UP. enrolleth.
PEOPLE. peoples.
THAT. Instead of _"That",_ supply "[and say] this one", &c.
SELAH. Connecting the last repetition of the alternation, and
completing the Structure. Thus, bot...
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The nations of the world shall be enrolled as Zion's children; and
Zion shall be glorified by this accession of unnumbered fresh
citizens....
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Jehovah shall reckon, when he registers the peoples,
-This one was born there."
Jehovah holds His census of the nations, and writes their names down
in His book. One after another of them He registe...
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THE LORD SHALL COUNT, &C.— _Jehovah shall record it when he
registers the nations: This man was born there._ The Psalmist here
describes the peculiar regard of God to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
and...
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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-...
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The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man
was born there. Selah.
THE LORD SHALL COUNT, WHEN HE WRITETH UP THE PEOPLE - rather, as
Hebrew, 'the peoples.'
THAT THIS (MAN) W...
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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 ...
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PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.' God is represented as making a register of the
nations which have been born into His kingdom.
7A. RV 'They that sing as well as they that dance _shall say._' The
nations which h...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
THE TWO JERUSALEMS
PSALMS 87
JESUS SAID, "YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN". (JOHN 3:7)...
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The proud boast of the preceding verse is repeated here with allusion
to the census or birth-register of citizens. (See Ezekiel 13:9; Isaiah
4:3; Psalms 69:28, Note.) No doubt these lists were often p...
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יְֽהוָ֗ה יִ֭סְפֹּר בִּ כְתֹ֣וב
עַמִּ֑ים זֶ֖ה...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The LORD shall count, when he (f) writeth up the people, [that] this
[man] was born there. Selah.
(f) When he calls them by his word into the Church, whom he had
elected and written in the book....
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Free. Hebrew also "separated" from society, 4 Kings xv. 5., and 2
Paralipomenon xxvi. 21. (Calmet) --- Christ, after enduring the
greatest miseries was still free. He could resign his life, and take
i...
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As Jesus is the first-born among many brethren, so when Zion's sons
are registered, Jehovah himself, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, shall
record it indeed, it hath been recorded, that here was the man b...
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6_The Lord will recount, when he writeth the peoples. _The meaning is,
that Zion will acquire such renown as to excite all men with the
greatest earnestness to desire to be admitted into the number an...
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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...
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THE LORD SHALL COUNT WHEN HE WRITETH UP THE PEOPLE,]. Not in the
Lamb's book of life for that was written from eternity, Revelation
13:8 but in the writing of the house of Israel, among the living in...
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_The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, [that] this
[man] was born there. Selah._
Ver. 6. _The Lord shall count when he writeth up the people_] When he
maketh his cease book (called the...
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_The Lord, shall count, when he writeth up the people_ In the book of
life, that register of heaven, kept by God himself, in which men's
names are entered, not as born of flesh and blood, by the will...
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The Lord shall count, when He writeth up the people, as one believer
after the other is added to His register, THAT THIS MAN WAS BORN
THERE, for the Lord knoweth them that are His, and He enters each...
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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...
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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...
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THE PEOPLE; or, _his people_. So it is only a defect of the pronoun
_his_, which is very frequent, and easily understood out of the
foregoing word, THE LORD. The sense is, when God, the Maker and
Gove...
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Psalms 87:6 LORD H3068 record H5608 (H8799) registers H3789 (H8800)
peoples H5971 born H3205 (H8795) Selah...
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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...
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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...
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_The Lord shall count, when He writeth up the people, that this man
was born there._
THE LAST CENSUS
I. When this dispensation shall come to its close, when the Lord Jesus
Christ shall come in the c...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 13:9; Ezekiel 9:4; Galatians 4:26; Isaiah 4:3; Jeremiah 3:19;...
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When — When God, the maker and governor of this city shall take a
survey of all his citizens. It is an allusion to princes or governors
of cities that use to write and keep a register of all their peo...