Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD shall cause it to be preached and written among the people, that he was born there. Selah.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord will count when He registers the peoples,
“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

When He registers the peoples,
the Lord will record,
“This one was born there.”Selah

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 King James verseion

Jehovah shall count, in recording the peoples, that this man 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.

References

Fausets

Prayers for Psalm 87:6

Context Readings

Zion, The City Of God

5 And of Zion it shall be reported, that he was born in her; and the most high shall establish her. 6 The LORD shall cause it to be preached and written among the people, that he was born there. Selah. 7 The singers also and trumpeters shall he rehearse. All my fresh springs shall be in thee.

Cross References

Isaiah 4:3

Then shall the remnant in Zion and the remnant at Jerusalem be called holy - namely, all such as are written among the living at Jerusalem -

Ezekiel 13:9

Mine hands shall come upon the prophets that look out vain things and preach lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor written in the book of the house of Israel, neither shall they come in the land of Israel: that ye may know how that I am the LORD God.

Psalm 69:28

Let them be wiped out of the book of the living, and not be written among the righteous.

Psalm 22:30

My seed shall serve him; they shall be counted unto the LORD for a generation.

Jeremiah 3:19

"'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me.

Ezekiel 9:4

and the LORD said unto him, "Go thy way through the city of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of them that mourn and are sorry for all the abominations that be done therein."

Luke 10:20

Nevertheless, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are under your power: But rejoice because your names are written in heaven."

Galatians 4:26-31

But Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is the mother of us all.

Philippians 4:3

Yea, and I beseech thee faithful yokefellow, help the women which laboured with me in the gospel, and with Clement also, and with others, my labour fellows, whose names are in the book of life.

Revelation 13:8

and all that dwell upon the earth worshipped him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb, which was killed from the beginning of the world.

Revelation 20:15

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire.

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