Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Glorious things are spoken about you, 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
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)
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 loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah. 4 I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: "This one 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 tents of the Most High.
Psalm 48:2-3
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.
Psalm 48:11-13
Let Mount Zion be glad. Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your judgments.
Psalm 125:1-2
Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but remains forever.
Isaiah 12:6
Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great in the midst of you."
Isaiah 49:14-26
But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me."
Isaiah 54:2-10
"Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; do not spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
Isaiah 59:20-22
"A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob," says the 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 the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Jeremiah 3:14-17
"Return, backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
Jeremiah 31:12-13
They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and they shall be radient over the goodness of the 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 garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Ezekiel 36:2
Thus says the Lord GOD: "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 on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better to you than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 37:27-28
My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ezekiel 40:1-49
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me there.
Ezekiel 48:1-35
"Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion.
Hebrews 12:22-23
But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
Revelation 14:1
I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
Revelation 21:10-27
He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,