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Verse Psalms 87:3. _GLORIOUS THINGS ARE SPOKEN OF THEE_] Or, there are
glorious words or doctrines in thee. Does this refer to the glorious
doctrines of the Christian Church? These are glorious saying...
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GLORIOUS THINGS ARE SPOKETH OF THEE, O CITY OF GOD - Jerusalem, called
the “city of God” as being the place of his unique home on earth.
The word rendered “are spoken” may mean either “have been
spoke...
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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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GOD. Hebrew. _ha_ -' _Elohim_. the [true] God. App-4.
SELAH. Connecting the first alternation with the second, showing that
it is to be. repeated alternation....
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The glory of Zion the city of God....
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_Glorious things are spoken of thee_ This need not be limited to the
utterance of Psalms 87:4 ff., but may include the great prophetic
promises generally, such as Isaiah 2:2 ff; Isaiah 11:10;...
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DISCOURSE: 646
THE GLORY OF ZION
Psalms 87:3. _Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God._
THE city here spoken of, is Zion: of whose praises the whole
Scriptures speak. She is represented as...
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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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Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
GLORIOUS THINGS ARE SPOKEN OF THEE, O CITY OF GOD - by God, by man,
among Israel, among the pagan (Hengstenberg). Psalms 46:1; Psalms 48:1...
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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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SELAH] see on Psalms 3:4;...
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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 meaning of this verse is obvious in spite of its many grammatical
difficulties. The praise of Zion had found many tongues, but the poet
implies that he is going to swell the chorus....
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נִ֭כְבָּדֹות מְדֻבָּ֣ר בָּ֑ךְ עִ֖יר
הָ אֱלֹהִ֣ים...
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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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(b) Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
(b) Though your glorious estate does not yet appear, wait with
patience and God will accomplish his promise....
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_Prayer. It represented as a person prostrated before God. Homer
(Iliad ix.) says, that "supplications are the daughters of Jupiter,
lame....with the eyes downcast, and following after injuries," whic...
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Surely we cannot be at a loss to apprehend what is meant by the
glorious things of the church, which is made glorious within by reason
of her glorious Lord, and Head, and King. All his people are made...
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3_Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God! _The reading
literally is, _That which is spoken in thee are glorious things. _We
must consider the design of the prophet, or rather the object of...
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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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GLORIOUS THINGS ARE SPOKEN OF THEE, O CITY OF GOD.] Which is to be
understood not of the city of Jerusalem literally, which was a
magnificent city, compact together, full of inhabitants, and spacious...
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Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Ver. 3. _Glorious things are spoken of thee_] _Dicta et praedicta,_
told and foretold of thee, Heb. in thee, _sc._ by the holy prophets,
espe...
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_Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God_ “As the prophet
began, in a rapture, to speak of the holy city, so now, in a fresh
transport, he changes the person, and suddenly addresses himself...
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Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. The things
which are said about the Church of God of all times redound to His
glory, because they relate to Zion's increasing glory; and the
m...
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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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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, no...
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O Jerusalem, though thou and thy temple are yet in some sort in your
ruins, and desolate and contemptible not only to thine enemies, but
also in the eyes of thine own people, yet comfort thyself with...
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Psalms 87:3 things H3513 (H8737) spoken H1696 (H8794) city H5892 God
H430 Selah H5542
Glorious -...
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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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_Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God._
THE GLORIOUS CITY
The inspired singer had the ransomed Church in view, and his soul was
stirred by a vision of the new Jerusalem, its regenerated...
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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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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 36:11; Ezekiel 36:2; Ezekiel 37:27; Ezekiel 37:28; Ez