Jerusalem, God's City
The psalmist loves God’s city—Jerusalem, founded on Mount Zion—and he knows to be from Jerusalem and to grow up in God’s city is a blessing and a privilege that those born in the surrounding nations do not have.
“Glorious things of you are spoken,
O city of God.”
Lord, help me to love your things—your Church and your Word—the way the psalmist loves your City.
Psalm 87 [ESV]
1 On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
2 the Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
3 Glorious things of you are spoken,
O city of God. Selah4 Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush—
“This one was born there,” they say.
5 And of Zion it shall be said,
“This one and that one were born in her”;
for the Most High himself will establish her.
6 The Lord records as he registers the peoples,
“This one was born there.” Selah7 Singers and dancers alike say,
“All my springs are in you.”