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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Psalms 87:6

Verse Psalms 87:6. The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people] בכתוב עמים bichthob ammim, in the register of the people. When he takes account of those who dwell in Jerusalem, he will particularly note those who were born in Zion.

This has an easy spiritual meaning. When God takes an account of all professing Christians, he will set apart those for inhabitants of the New Jerusalem who were born in Zion, who were born again, received a new nature, and were fitted for heaven.

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See also Psalms 87:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The nations of the world shall be enrolled as Zion's children; and Zion shall be glorified by this accession of unnumbered fresh citizens....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • 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 ...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְֽהוָ֗ה יִ֭סְפֹּר בִּ כְתֹ֣וב עַמִּ֑ים זֶ֖ה...

  • 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

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 87:6 LORD H3068 record H5608 (H8799) registers H3789 (H8800) peoples H5971 born H3205 (H8795) Selah...

  • 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

    _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...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • 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 13:9; Ezekiel 9:4; Galatians 4:26; Isaiah 4:3; Jeremiah 3:19;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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