Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Jehovah shall recount in writing up the peoples, This was born there. Silence.
New American Standard Bible
“This one was born there.” Selah.
King James Version
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
Holman Bible
the Lord will record,
“This one was born there.”
International Standard Version
The LORD will record, as he registers the nations, "This one was born there." Interlude
A Conservative Version
LORD will count when he writes up the peoples: This [man] was born there. Selah.
American Standard Version
Jehovah will count, when he writeth up the peoples, This one was born there. Selah
Amplified
The Lord will count, when He registers the peoples,
“This one was born there.” Selah.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
Jehovah will count, when he inscribeth the peoples, This man was born there. Selah.
King James 2000
The LORD shall count, when he registers the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yahweh will record in writing [the] peoples, "This [one] was born there." Selah
Modern King James verseion
Jehovah shall count, in recording the peoples, that this man was born there. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The LORD shall cause it to be preached and written among the people, that he was born there. Selah.
NET Bible
The Lord writes in the census book of the nations, "This one was born there." (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
The LORD will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, will record, when he enrolleth the peoples, This one was born there. Selah.
Webster
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
World English Bible
Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
Jehovah doth recount in the describing of the peoples, 'This one was born there.' Selah.
Themes
References
Fausets
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 87:6
Prayers for Psalm 87:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion, The City Of God
5 And to Zion a man will say, And a man was born in her: and he the Most High shall prepare her. 6 Jehovah shall recount in writing up the peoples, This was born there. Silence. 7 The chiefs according to them beginning: all my fountains in thee.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 4:3
And it was he being left in Zion and he remaining in Jerusalem, he shall say to him holy, all being written for their life in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 13:9
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets seeing falsehood, and divining a lie: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, and they shall not be written in the writing of the house of Israel, and to the land of Israel they shall not come in; and ye knew that I am the Lord Jehovah.
Psalm 69:28
They shall be wiped off from the book of the living, and with the just they shall not be written.
Psalm 22:30
A seed shall serve him; it shall be numbered to Jehovah for a generation.
Jeremiah 3:19
And I said, How shall I place thee among the sons, and I will give to thee a land of desire, an inheritance of glory of the armies of nations? And saying, Ye shall call to me, My father; and ye shall rot turn back from after me.
Ezekiel 9:4
And Jehovah will say to him, Pass through into the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and mark a mark upon the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning for all the abominations being done in her midst
Luke 10:20
But in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, that your names were written in the heavens.
Galatians 4:26-31
But Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all.
Philippians 4:3
And I also ask thee, worthy yoke-fellow, aid those women who fought in company with me in the good news, and with Clement, and the rest of my co-workers, whose names in the book of life.
Revelation 13:8
And all they dwelling upon earth shall worship him, whose names have not been written in the book of life of the slain Lamb from the foundation of the world.
Revelation 20:15
And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.