Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Jehovah shall count, in recording the peoples, that this man was born there. Selah.
New American Standard Bible
“This one was born there.” Selah.
King James Version
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
Holman Bible
the Lord will record,
“This one was born there.”
International Standard Version
The LORD will record, as he registers the nations, "This one was born there." Interlude
A Conservative Version
LORD will count when he writes up the peoples: This [man] was born there. Selah.
American Standard Version
Jehovah will count, when he writeth up the peoples, This one was born there. Selah
Amplified
The Lord will count, when He registers the peoples,
“This one was born there.” Selah.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
Jehovah will count, when he inscribeth the peoples, This man was born there. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
Jehovah shall recount in writing up the peoples, This was born there. Silence.
King James 2000
The LORD shall count, when he registers the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yahweh will record in writing [the] peoples, "This [one] was born there." Selah
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The LORD shall cause it to be preached and written among the people, that he was born there. Selah.
NET Bible
The Lord writes in the census book of the nations, "This one was born there." (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
The LORD will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, will record, when he enrolleth the peoples, This one was born there. Selah.
Webster
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
World English Bible
Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
Jehovah doth recount in the describing of the peoples, 'This one was born there.' Selah.
Themes
References
Fausets
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 87:6
Prayers for Psalm 87:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion, The City Of God
5 And to Zion it shall be said, This man and that man was born in her; and the Highest shall establish her. 6 Jehovah shall count, in recording the peoples, that this man was born there. Selah. 7 And the singers, the players of the pipe: all my springs are in You!
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 4:3
And it shall be, he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem;
Ezekiel 13:9
And My hand shall be against the prophets who see vanity and who divine a lie. They shall not be in the council of My people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
Psalm 69:28
Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life, and not be written with the righteous.
Psalm 22:30
A seed shall serve Him; it shall be spoken of Jehovah to the coming generation.
Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call Me, My Father, and shall not turn away from Me.
Ezekiel 9:4
And Jehovah said to him, Go through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men who are groaning and are mourning because of all the abominations that are done in her midst.
Luke 10:20
Yet do not rejoice in this, that the evil spirits are subject to you, rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.
Galatians 4:26-31
But the Jerusalem from above is free, who is the mother of us all.
Philippians 4:3
And I also beg you, true yoke-fellow, help those women who labored in the gospel with me and with Clement, and others of my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the Book of Life.
Revelation 13:8
And all dwelling on the earth will worship it, those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain, from the foundation of the world.
Revelation 20:15
And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire.