Psalms 87:3

In 11 translations

BSB

Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah

KJV

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

WEB

Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.

ASV

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. [Selah

LSV

Honorable things are spoken in You, || O city of God. Selah.

YLT

Honourable things are spoken in Thee, O city of God. Selah.

DBY

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.Elohim

DRC86:3

Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

GNV

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O citie of God. Selah.

JPS

Glorious things are spoken of Thee, O city of God. Selah

LXXE86:3

Glorious things have been spoken of thee, O city of God. Pause.

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WLC

נִ֭כְבָּדוֹת מְדֻבָּ֣ר בָּ֑ךְ עִ֖יר הָאֱלֹהִ֣ים סֶֽלָה׃

LXX-Br86:3

Δεδοξασμένα ἐλαλήθη περὶ σοῦ ἡ πόλις τοῦ Θεοῦ· διάψαλμα.

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• Ezekiel 37:27–28My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people. Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is among them forever.’”
• Ezekiel 36:11–38I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD. Yes,…
• Revelation 21:10–27And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious…
• Psalms 48:2–3Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King. God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
• Hebrews 12:22–23Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have…
• Revelation 14:1Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
• Jeremiah 31:12–13They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD— the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered…
• Psalms 125:1–2Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.
• Isaiah 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
• Isaiah 49:14–26But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!” “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you! Behold, I have…
• Isaiah 61:3–62:12to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the…
• Psalms 46:4There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
• Psalms 48:11–13Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments. March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers, consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
• Jeremiah 3:14–17“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion. Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will…
• Isaiah 59:20–60:22“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD. “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I…
• Isaiah 54:2–10“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep. For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will…

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