Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)
New American Standard Bible
O
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
A Conservative Version
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
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.
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 The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob. 3 Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.) 4 Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.
Cross References
Psalm 46:4
There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
Psalm 125:1-2
Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.
Isaiah 12:6
Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.
Isaiah 49:14-26
But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.
Isaiah 54:2-10
Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.
Isaiah 59:20-22
And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.
Isaiah 61:3-12
To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
Jeremiah 3:14-17
Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;
Jeremiah 31:12-13
So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.
Ezekiel 36:2
This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them:
Ezekiel 36:11-38
Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 37:27-28
And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.
Ezekiel 40:1-49
In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.
Ezekiel 48:1-35
Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, from the west on the way of Hethlon to the way into Hamath, in the direction of Hazar-enon, with the limit of Damascus to the north, by Hamath; and on the limit from the east side to the west side: Dan, one part.
Hebrews 12:22-23
But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,
Revelation 14:1
And I saw the Lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, marked on their brows with his name and the name of his Father.
Revelation 21:10-27
And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,