Psalms 87:1

His foundation is in the holy mountains. Psalms 87:1.-Zion is the city loved and founded by God (Psalms 87:1); it is the spiritual birthplace of the nations (Psalms 87:4). Thrice in Psalms 87:4 it is stated that such and such a one "was born in her" (there); in Psalms 87:7 the chorus of converted nations joyfully sing that the springs of their spiritual life flow from her. The occasion was probably Jerusalem's triumph, under Hezekiah, over Sennacherib. "Babylon" and Egypt ("Rahab:" cf....

1_His foundations are in the holy mountains. _Those who conceive that Jerusalem is here meant, as if it were said to _be founded upon the holy mountains, _are in my judgment mistaken; for the relative is in the masculine gender. Some learned men, I am aware, defend this opinion, by supposing that the words, _the people, _are to be supplied, although it is the capital of Judea which is specified. But it is unnecessary for me to say any thing to prove what is apparent to all, that this exposition is forced. Some Jewish interpreters have thought it most probable that this opening sentence is to be referred to the psalm itself; and, accordingly, they explain _foundations _as denoting metaphorically the theme, or subject of the poem, because it treats of the holy city Jerusalem, which was situated upon mountains. But I am surprised that they should have been mistaken in a matter so very obvio...

1-3 Christ himself is the Foundation of the church, which God has laid. Holiness is the strength and firmness of the church. Let us not be ashamed of the church of Christ in its meanest condition, nor of those that belong to it, since such glorious things are spoken of it. Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, even Jesus Christ. The glorious things spoken of Zion by the Spirit, were all typical of Christ, and his work and offices; of the gospel church, its privileges and members; of heaven, its glory and perfect happiness....

PSALM LXXXVII _The nature and glorious privileges of Zion and Jerusalem_, 1-3. _No other city to be compared to this_, 4. _The privilege of being born in it_, 5, 6. _Its praises celebrated_, 7. NOTES ON PSALM LXXXVII The _title, A Psalm_ or _Song for the sons of Korah_, gives us no light into the _author_ or _meaning_ of this Psalm. It begins and ends so abruptly that many have thought it to be only a _fragment_ of a larger Psalm. This opinion is very likely. Those who suppose it to have been made when Jerusalem was rebuilt and fortified, imagine it to have been an exclamation of the author on beholding its beauty, and contemplating its privil

HIS FOUNDATION - This is an abrupt commencement of the psalm. The adjective “his” has been supposed by some to refer to the psalm itself, and this expression has been considered to be a part of the title to the psalm, meaning that the foundation of the psalm is the holy mountain where the praises of God were celebrated; that is Zion. This, however, is a forced and unnatural interpretation. The most obvious explanation is to refer it to God, and the meaning is, that his “foundation,” or that which he had founded and established, to wit, the place for his worship, or for the institutions of religion, was in the holy mountains of Jerusalem. It would seem that the psalmist was contemplating the city - looking on its walls, and its palaces, and especially on the place which had been reared for the worship of God, and that he breaks out in this abrupt manner, by saying that this was what God h...

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 87:4). The glorification falls under two heads—God's acknowledgment of those who flock into his Church (Psalms 87:4), and their acknowledgment of the blessings which they receive through it. The two "selahs" divide the psalm into two stanzas, each of three verses, and a short epode consisting of a single verse. PSALMS 87:1 The praises of Zion. (1) She is bui

HIS FOUNDATION IS IN THE HOLY MOUNTAINS. The Jewish writers connect these words with the title of the psalm, and make the sense to be this; "the foundation" or argument "of it", the psalm, "is concerning the holy mountains" of Zion and Jerusalem; so Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Kimchi; and the Targum joins them together thus, "by the hands of the sons of Korah is said a song, which is founded by the mouth of the fathers that were of old:'' but the words are a part of the song or psalm, which begins in an abrupt manner, just as Song of Solomon 1:2 and may be rendered either "its foundation", or "his foundation", and refer either to the church, or to the Lord, and the sense is the same either way; for the church's foundation is also the Lord's foundation, a foundation of his laying; see...

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 many visions of the prophets. When these prophecies are fulfilled and the glory has come, then Rahab (pride--Egypt) and Babylon shall know, as well as Philistia, Tyre and Cush. Nations will be born again and turn to the Lord and share the blessings of the kingdom. Then the singers will sing “All my springs are in Thee,” in Him who dwelleth in Zion. The Christian believer gives now this testimony and knows its blessed truth, that Christ is all and in Him we have all our resources. But what will it be when nations with Zion shall know this!...

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 Zion was due to the establishment there of David's court and to the great principle of the Deuteronomic reform, one Yahweh and one altar, viz. at Jerusalem. Attempt was made by interpolation in ancient records (see Genesis 14:18 * and Genesis 22:2 *) to carry the consecration of Jerusalem back into patriarchal times. PSALMS 87:3. ARE SPOKEN: read, he speaketh. Psalms 87:4_ a._ A short speech by Yahweh. Render

TITLE.. PSALM. Hebrew. _mizmor._ App-65. SONG. Hebrew. _shir_. App-65. FOR THE SONS OF KORAH: i.e. of or by them. This title is repeated in the sub-scription after Psalms 87:7, to emphasise the occasion of its use in bringing up the Ark to Zion by David (951BC,. Sabbatic year). See note there, and on Title of Psalms 24. HIS: i.e. Jehovah's (which He has laid in Zion). HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5....