Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
English Revised Version
Psalms 87
1His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. \+w Selah|strong="H5542"\+w* 4I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this one was born there. 5Yea, of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; and the Most High himself shall establish her. 6The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the peoples, this one was born there. \+w Selah|strong="H5542"\+w* 7They that sing as well as they that dance shall say, All my fountains are in thee.
English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.