Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Holman Bible
city of God.
International Standard Version
Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Interlude
American Standard Version
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah
Amplified
Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God [Jerusalem]. Selah.
Bible in Basic English
Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
Honored things being spoken in thee, O city of God. Silence.
King James 2000
Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Glorious things [are] spoken about you, O city of God. Selah
Modern King James verseion
Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Very excellent things are spoken of thee, thou city of God. Selah.
NET Bible
People say wonderful things about you, O city of God. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
Glorious things, are to be spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Webster
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
World English Bible
Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
Honourable things are spoken in Thee, O city of God. Selah.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 87:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion, The City Of God
2 LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. 4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among those who know me. Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: This [man] was born there.
Cross References
Psalm 46:4
There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
Psalm 48:2-3
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Psalm 48:11-13
Let mount Zion be glad. Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of thy judgments.
Psalm 125:1-2
Those who trust in LORD are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
Isaiah 12:6
Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 49:14-26
But Zion said, LORD has forsaken me, and LORD has forgotten me.
Isaiah 54:2-10
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations. Spare not. Lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.
Isaiah 59:20-22
And he who redeems will come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says LORD.
Isaiah 61:3-12
to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of LORD, that
Jeremiah 31:12-13
And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of LORD, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered gard
Ezekiel 36:2
Thus says lord LORD: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession,
Ezekiel 36:11-38
And I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited according to your former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings. And ye shall know that
Ezekiel 37:27-28
My tabernacle shall also be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ezekiel 40:1-49
In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, in the selfsame day, the hand of LORD was upon me, and he brought me there
Hebrews 12:22-23
But ye have come to mount Zion, and to the city of a living God, a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of heavenly agents,
Revelation 14:1
And I looked, and lo, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with it a number, a hundred and forty-four thousand, having its name and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
Revelation 21:10-27
And he carried me away in spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,