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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 87:3

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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See also Psalms 87:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The glory of Zion the city of God....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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;...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GLORIOUS THINGS ARE SPOKEN OF THEE— _Glorious things, it shall be said, are in thee; i.e._ all nations shall speak of them with surprise and wonder. Chandler....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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-...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SELAH] see on Psalms 3:4;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 ...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE TWO JERUSALEMS PSALMS 87 JESUS SAID, "YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN". (JOHN 3:7)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נִ֭כְבָּדֹות מְדֻבָּ֣ר בָּ֑ךְ עִ֖יר הָ אֱלֹהִ֣ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 87:3 things H3513 (H8737) spoken H1696 (H8794) city H5892 God H430 Selah H5542 Glorious -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 36:11; Ezekiel 36:2; Ezekiel 37:27; Ezekiel 37:28; Ez

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