Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
city of God.
New American Standard Bible
O
King James Version
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
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.
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
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
city of God.
Rahab, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—
each one was born there.”
Cross References
Psalm 46:4
its streams delight the city of God,
the holy dwelling place of the Most High.
Psalm 48:2-3
is the joy of the whole earth.
Mount Zion on the slopes of the north
is the city of the great King.
Psalm 48:11-13
The towns
because of Your judgments.
Psalm 125:1-2
A song of ascents.
It cannot be shaken; it remains forever.
Isaiah 12:6
for the Holy One of Israel
in His greatness.”
Isaiah 49:14-26
The Lord has forgotten me!”
Isaiah 54:2-10
and let your tent curtains be stretched out;
do not hold back;
lengthen your ropes,
and drive your pegs deep.
Isaiah 59:20-22
and to those in Jacob who turn from transgression.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Isaiah 61:3-12
to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,
festive oil instead of mourning,
and splendid clothes instead of despair.
And they will be called righteous trees,
planted by the Lord
to glorify Him.
Jeremiah 3:14-17
“Return, you faithless children”
Jeremiah 31:12-13
they will be radiant with joy
because of
because of the grain, the new wine, the fresh oil,
and because of the young of the flocks and herds.
Their life will be like an irrigated garden,
and they will no longer grow weak from hunger.
Ezekiel 36:2
This is what the Lord God says: Because the enemy has said about you, ‘Good!
Ezekiel 36:11-38
I will fill you with people and animals,
Ezekiel 37:27-28
My dwelling place will be with them;
Ezekiel 40:1-49
In 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 captured,
Ezekiel 48:1-35
“Now these are the names of the tribes:
Hebrews 12:22-23
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels in festive gathering,
Revelation 14:1
Then I looked, and there on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with Him were 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
Revelation 21:10-27
He then carried me away in the Spirit