Psalms 87:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

Psalms 87:3 —

Old words in this verse

selah: — a pause or musical mark (meaning uncertain).

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 37:27-28
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. …
Ezekiel 36:11-38
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. …
Revelation 21:10-27
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, …
Psalms 48:2-3
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. …
Hebrews 12:22-23
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

Some make the first words of the psalm to be part of the title; it is a psalm or song whose subject is the holy mountains—the temple built in Zion upon Mount Moriah. This is the foundation of the argument, or beginning of the psalm. Or we may suppose the psalmist had now the tabernacle or temple in view and was contemplating the glories of it, and at length he breaks out into this expression, whic…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. spoken of thee--or, “in thee,” that is, the city of God (Psa 46:4; 48:2).