“ His foundation is in the holy mountains. ”
His foundation - This is an abrupt commencement of the psalm. The adjective “his” has been supposed by some to refer to the psalm itself, and this expression has been considered to be a part of t...
"A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of Korah." His (a) foundation [is] in the holy mountains. (a) God chose that place among the hills to establish Jerusalem and his temple.
LXXXVII. Zion the Mother of all Yahweh's People. When this Ps. was written, the Jews were scattered everywhere in the known world. But every true Jew recognised Jerusalem as his mother city. The gl...
Title.. Psalm. Hebrew. mizmor. App-65. Song. Hebrew. shir . App-65. for the sons of Korah: i.e. of or by them. This title is repeated in the sub-scription after Psalms 87:7 , to emphasise...
1 His foundations are in the holy mountains. Those who conceive that Jerusalem is here meant, as if it were said to be founded upon the holy mountains, are in my judgment mistaken; for th...
A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation is in the holy mountains. His foundation is in the holy mountains - Jerusalem was founded on the mountains or hills of Zion and Moriah. The a...
The nature and glory of the church. The increase, honour, and comfort of the members thereof. A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. Title. שׁיר מזמור קרח לבני libnei korach mizmor shiir....
His foundation is in the holy mountains. Psalms 87:1-7 .-Zion is the city loved and founded by God ( Psalms 87:1-3 ); it is the spiritual birthplace of the nations ( Psalms 87:4-7 ). Thrice i...
His foundation ] i.e. God's. The holy mountains ] the hills on which Jerusalem stood.
His foundation. — This abrupt commencement with a clause without a verb has led to the conjecture that a line has dropped away. But this is unnecessary if we neglect the accents, and take gates of...
Psalms 87:1-7 ONE clear note sounds in this remarkable psalm. Its single theme is the incorporation of ancestral foes and distant nations with the people of God. Aliens are to be enrolled as home-...
Citizens of Zion Psalms 87:1-7 This psalm blends in one great congregation the ancient foes of Israel and the Chosen People. It is a vision of the Holy Universal Church. The Selahs divide it...
This is a prophecy. The singer is looking on. The order of the earthly realisation of the Kingdom of God is seen as established. First, the city is contemplated at the centre of everything, with Jeho...
CONTENTS This Psalm hath been very justly considered as a beautiful ode on the Incarnation of Christ; and, as such, contains the outlines of that glorious event, and of the happiness and welfare of...
THE HOLY HILLS ‘Her foundations are upon the holy hills.’ Psalms 87:1 (Prayer Book Version) The Psalmist, in his lovely songs, speaks to us sometimes as an historian, at other times as a proph...
His foundation is in the holy mountains. The Jewish writers connect these words with the title of the psalm, and make the sense to be this; "the foundation" or argument "of it", the psalm, "is conc...
Psalms 87:1 «A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of Korah. » His foundation [is] in the holy mountains. A Psalm or Song ] Made, likely, by David, after that he had settled the ark in Mount Sion, 2 S...
His foundation Namely, the foundation of the city, or temple of God, of which he speaks in the following verses. The psalmist's thoughts, we may suppose, were strongly fixed upon the temple and cit...
The Glory of Zion. A psalm or song for the sons of Korah. 1 His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The L O...
PSALM 87 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was doubtless composed after the building of the temple; and, as learned men think, and it seems probable, when the people were newly returned out of Babylon, and l...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ A Psalm of Song for the sons of Korah .” It so far combines the properties of a religious Psalm and a patriotic song that either of the names may with propriety...
Psalms 87:1 . His foundation is in the holy mountains. The hills of Zion and Moriah were both holy. The exordium is bold and abrupt. Mystically, the spiritual Zion, built on the foundation of the...
His foundation is in the holy mountains. A material portrait of the spiritual Church I. It is glorious in its elevation ( Psalms 87:1 ). The spiritual Church is a city set upon a hill. Though e...
EXPOSITION THIS short psalm, opening with the praise of Zion, or of the Jewish Church ( Psalms 87:1-19 ), passes into a glorification of the Church universal, when all the nations have come in...
His foundation, that which Jehovah, the Lord of the Church, has laid, is in the holy mountains, the location of the Temple being given in the wide sense, for Jerusalem was situated on several hills...
1 Corinthians 3:10 ; 1 Corinthians 3:11 ; 1 Peter 2:4-8 ; 2 Chronicles 3:1 ; 2 Peter 1:18 ; Ephesians 2:20-22 ; Isaiah 2:2 ; Isaiah 2:3 ; Isaiah 28:16 ; Isaiah 56:7 ; Matthew 16:18 ; Psal...
Its foundation — The foundation of the temple of God.