Psalms Chapter 87 verse 1 Holy Bible
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
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<Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song.> This house is resting on the holy mountain.
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{Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song.} His foundation is in the mountains of holiness.
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His foundation is in the holy mountains.
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A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
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> His foundation is in the holy mountains.
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By sons of Korah. -- A Psalm, a song. His foundation `is' in holy mountains.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-3. - The praises of Zion. (1) She is built upon the holy mountains; (2) God loves her pre-eminently; and (3) a glorious future is assigned to her in the counsels of God. Ver. 1. - His foundation is in the holy mountains. God's foundation - the city which he has founded - is "in the holy mountains;" i.e. in the hill country of Judaea, a congeries of mountains, "holy," since they surround the holy city and belong to the "holy land" (Zechariah 2:12).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(1) 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 Zion in apposition with His foundation:His foundation on the holy hillLoveth Jehovah, (even) Zion's gates,More than all Jacob's dwellings.Here His foundation is equivalent to that which He hath founded, and the gates are put by metonymy for the city itself. (Comp. Jeremiah 14:2.)With regard to the plural, mountains, it is probably only poetical, though geographically it is correct to speak of Jerusalem as situated on hills. Dean Stanley speaks of "the multiplicity of the eminences" which the city "shares, though in a smaller compass, with Rome and Constantinople" (Sinai and Palestine, p. 177).
