Psalm 87

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.

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. Selah

4 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.” Selah

7 Singers and dancers alike say,
    “All my springs are in you.”