Psalms 87:3

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. [Selah”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Honourable things are spoken in Thee, O city of God. Selah.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 87:3 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 46:4There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
  2. Psalms 48:2Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
  3. Psalms 48:11Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.
  4. Psalms 125:1Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.
  5. Isaiah 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
  6. Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
  7. Isaiah 54:2“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.
  8. Isaiah 59:20“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD.
  9. Isaiah 61:3to 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 LORD, that He may be glorified.
  10. Jeremiah 3:14“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.
  11. Jeremiah 31:12They 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 garden, and never again will they languish.
  12. Ezekiel 5:5This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
  13. Ezekiel 36:2This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’
  14. Ezekiel 36:11I 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.
  15. Ezekiel 37:27My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  16. Ezekiel 40:1In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
  17. Ezekiel 48:1“Now these are the names of the tribes: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion bordering the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath and running on to Hazar-enan on the border of Damascus with Hamath to the north, and extending from the east side to the west side.
  18. Ezekiel 48:35The perimeter of the city will be 18,000 cubits, and from that day on the name of the city will be: THE LORD IS THERE.”
  19. Hebrews 12:22Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
  20. 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.
  21. Revelation 21:10And 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,

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