Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Glorious things, are to be spoken of thee, O city 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.
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.
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 Yahweh loveth the gates of Zion, More than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things, are to be spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. 4 I will mention Rahab and Babylon, to them who know me - Lo! Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia, This one was born there.
Cross References
Psalm 46:4
A river! whose channels, shall gladden the city of God, The Most High, hath hallowed his habitation.
Psalm 48:11-13
Let Mount Zion rejoice, Let the daughters of Judah exult, Because of thy judgments.
Psalm 125:1-2
They who trust in Yahweh, are like Mount Zion, which shall not be shaken, Age-abidingly, shall it remain.
Isaiah 12:6
Make shrill thy voice and sing out thou inhabitress of Zion, - That great in the midst of thee, is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 49:14-26
But Zion had said. Yahweh hath forsaken me, - Even, My Lord, hath forgotten me!
Isaiah 54:2-10
Enlarge the space of thy tent And the curtains of thy habitations, let them spread forth do not spare, - Lengthen thy cords, And thy tent-pins, make thou fast;
Isaiah 59:20-22
So shall come in for Zion, a Redeemer, Even for such as are turning from transgression in Jacob, - Declareth Yahweh.
Isaiah 61:3-12
To appoint unto the mourners of Zion - To give unto them A chaplet instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, The mantle of praise instead of the spirit of dejection, - So shall they be called The oaks of righteousness, The plantation of Yahweh: That he may get himself glory
Jeremiah 3:14-17
Return, ye apostate sons, Urgeth Yahweh, for, I, am become your husband, - therefore will I take you one of a city, and two of a family, and will bring you to Zion;
Jeremiah 31:12-13
Then shall they come in and shall shout in triumph on the height of Zion, And shall stream unto the goodness of Yahweh To the wheat, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flocks and of the herds, - So shall their soul become like a garden well watered, And they shall not again languish any more.
Ezekiel 36:2
Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh, Because the enemy hath said concerning you Aha! Even the high places of age-past times, for a possession have become ours
Ezekiel 36:11-38
And I will multiply upon you - man and beast, And hey shall multiply and be fruitful, - And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former estates. And will do you more good than at your beginnings, So shall ye know that am Yahweh;
Ezekiel 37:27-28
And my habitation shall be over them, And I will become their God,- And they, shall become my people,
Ezekiel 40:1-49
In the twenty-fifth year of our exe at the beginning of the year. on the tenth of the month in the fourteenth year, after the city was smitten, on this selfsame day, came upon me the hand of Yahweh, and he brought me thither:
Ezekiel 48:1-35
Now these are the names of the tribes, - At the northern extremity, beside the Hethlon road - as one entereth Hamath, Hazar-enan the boundary of Damascus northwards by the side of Hamath, and so they shall be his as east side and west-Dan, one.
Hebrews 12:22-23
But ye have approached - unto Zion's mountain, and unto the city of a Living God, a heavenly Jerusalem, - and unto myriads of messengers,
Revelation 14:1
And I saw, and lo! the Lamb, standing upon the mount Zion, - and, with him, a hundred and forty-four thousand, having his name and his Father's name written upon their foreheads.
Revelation 21:10-27
And he carried me away, in spirit, unto a mountain great and high, and pointed out to me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God;