Psalms 87:1
What meaning of the psalms 87:1 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 87:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"His foundation is in the holy mountains."
What does Psalms 87:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"His foundation is in the holy mountains."
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. N...
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 ti...
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 m...
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...
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 occa...
The Psalmist's heart is full of his theme. He states it abruptly in a verse of a single line (cp. Psalms 18:1):" Tis his foundation upon the holy mountains: which stands by itself as a kind of title...
_The nature and glory of the church. The increase, honour, and comfort of the members thereof._ A Psalm _or_ Song for the sons of Korah. _TITLE._ שׁיר מזמור קרח לבני _LIBNEI KORACH MIZMOR SHIIR._— Th...
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...
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...
87:1 foundation (a-11) i.e. 'What he has founded.'...
HIS FOUNDATION] i.e. God's. THE HOLY MOUNTAINS] the hills on which Jerusalem stood....
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE TWO JERUSALEMS PSALMS 87 JESUS SAID, "YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN". (JOHN 3:7) PSALMS 87 (This is) a song with music, for the sons of *Korah. V1 He built it on t...
HIS FOUNDATION. — This abrupt commencement with a clause without a verb has led to the conjecture that a line has dropped away. But this is unnecessary if we neglect the accents, and take _gates of Zi...
לִ בְנֵי ־קֹ֖רַח מִזְמֹ֣ור שִׁ֑יר יְ֝סוּדָתֹ֗ו בְּ הַרְרֵי ־קֹֽדֶשׁ׃...
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...
"A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of Korah." His (a) foundation [is] in the holy mountains. (a) God chose that place among the hills to establish Jerusalem and his temple....
Maheleth. A musical instrument, or chorus of musicians, to answer one another, (Challoner) in doleful music. (Worthington) --- See Psalm xli., and lii. (Menochius) --- Hebrew may imply, "on infirmity,...
CONTENTS This Psalm hath been very justly considered as a beautiful ode on the Incarnation of Christ; and, as such, contains the outlines of that glorious event, and of the happiness and welfare of t...
_THE HOLY HILLS_ ‘Her foundations are upon the holy hills.’ Psalms 87:1 (Prayer Book Version) The Psalmist, in his lovely songs, speaks to us sometimes as an historian, at other times as a prophet....
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...
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...
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 concern...
Psalms 87:1 «A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of Korah. » His foundation [is] in the holy mountains. _A Psalm or Song_] Made, likely, by David, after that he had settled the ark in Mount Sion, 2 Samuel...
_His foundation_ Namely, the foundation of the city, or temple of God, of which he speaks in the following verses. The psalmist's thoughts, we may suppose, were strongly fixed upon the temple and city...
His foundation, that which Jehovah, the Lord of the Church, has laid, IS IN THE HOLY MOUNTAINS, the location of the Temple being given in the wide sense, for Jerusalem was situated on several hills, o...
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...
PSALM 87 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was doubtless composed after the building of the temple; and, as learned men think, and it seems probable, when the people were newly returned out of Babylon, and labo...
Psalms 87:1 Psalm H4210 sons H1121 Korah H7141 Song H7892 foundation H3248 holy H6944 mountains H2042 for - or, of His - 2 Chronicles 3:1; Isaiah 28:16; Matthew 16:18; 1 Corinthians 3:10-11;...
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...
_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...
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 (Psalm...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 3:11; 1 Peter 2:4; 2 Chronicles 3:1; 2 Peter 1:18; Ephesians 2:20; Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 2:3; Isaiah 28:16;...
Its foundation — The foundation of the temple of God....