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Psalm 87

Psa. 87:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And of Zion
Tsiyown (Hebrew #6726)
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
KJV usage: Zion.
Pronounce: tsee-yone'
Origin: the same (regularly) as 6725
it shall be said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
n, This and that man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
was born
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
in her: and the highest
'elyown (Hebrew #5945)
an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
KJV usage: (Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).
Pronounce: el-yone'
Origin: from 5927
himself shall establish
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
her.
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Isa. 60:1‑9• 1Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee.
 2For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples: but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
 3And nations shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brightness of thy rising.
 4Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons come from far, and thy daughters are nursed upon the side.
 5Then thou shalt see and be brightened, and thy heart shall throb and be enlarged; for the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee.
 6A multitude of camels shall cover thee, dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense, and they shall show forth the praises of Jehovah.
 7All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall serve thee; they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will beautify the house of my magnificence.
 8Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as doves to their dovecotes?
 9Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of Jehovah thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee. (Isa. 60:1‑9)

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Zion; Sion; Mount Zion

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Ministry on This Verse

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of Zion.
Isa. 44:4‑5• 4and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water-courses.
 5One shall say, I [am] Jehovah's; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall inscribe [with] his hand, [I am] Jehovah's, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel. (Isa. 44:4‑5)
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Isa. 60:1‑9• 1Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee.
 2For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples: but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
 3And nations shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brightness of thy rising.
 4Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons come from far, and thy daughters are nursed upon the side.
 5Then thou shalt see and be brightened, and thy heart shall throb and be enlarged; for the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee.
 6A multitude of camels shall cover thee, dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense, and they shall show forth the praises of Jehovah.
 7All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall serve thee; they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will beautify the house of my magnificence.
 8Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as doves to their dovecotes?
 9Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of Jehovah thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee. (Isa. 60:1‑9)
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John 1:12‑14• 12but as many as received him, to them he gave authority to become children of God , to those that believe on his name;
 13who were born not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.
 14And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only-begotten from beside a father), full of grace and truth. (John 1:12‑14)
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John 3:3‑5• 3Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say to thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
 4Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born?
 5Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say to thee, Except one be born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:3‑5)
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Gal. 3:26‑28• 26for ye all are sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
 27For as many of you as were baptized unto Christ, put on Christ.
 28There is no Jew nor Greek, there is no bondservant nor freeman, there is no male and female; for all ye are one in Christ Jesus. (Gal. 3:26‑28)
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Heb. 11:32‑40• 32And what more do I say? For the time would fail me telling of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets;
 33who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped lions' mouths,
 34quenched fire's power, escaped sword's edge, were strengthened from weakness, became mighty in war, put to flight armies of aliens.
 35Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted their deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection;
 36and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea and of bonds and imprisonment.
 37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they died by slaughter of sword. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
 38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and the chinks of the earth.
 39And these all having been witnessed of through their faith received not the promise,
 40God having foreseen some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be perfected. (Heb. 11:32‑40)
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Heb. 12:1‑2,22‑24• 1Therefore let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight and the readily besetting sin, run with endurance the race that is set before us,
 2looking off unto Jesus the leader and completer of faith; who for the joy set before him endured cross, despising shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God.
 22But ye have approached to mount Zion; and to a living God's city, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels, a universal assemblage;
 23and to an assembly of firstborns, enrolled in heavens; and to God judge of all; and to spirits of just ones made perfect;
 24and to Jesus mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling speaking better than Abel. (Heb. 12:1‑2,22‑24)
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1 Peter 1:23‑24• 23having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through God's living and abiding word.
 24Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as a flower of grass. The grass withered and the flower fell away, (1 Peter 1:23‑24)
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Ezek. 48:35• 35[It was] round about eighteen thousand [measures]; and the name of the city from [that] day [shall be], Jehovah [is] there. (Ezek. 48:35)
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Matt. 16:18• 18And I also, I say unto thee that thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and hades' gates shall not prevail against it. (Matt. 16:18)
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Rom. 8:31• 31What then shall we say to these things? If God [be] for us, who against us? (Rom. 8:31)
• But the fame of Jehovah’s people would be that they belong to Zion, the city established by the Most High. (“Psalm 87” by H. Smith)
• As the Millennium begins the fame of Jehovah’s people will spread throughout the world (Isa. 61:9) as being born of God and connected by grace with Zion (vs. 5). (“Book 3.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; and the Most High himself shall establish her.

W. Kelly Translation

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And of Zion it shall be said,{HR}[This] man, and [that] man was born in her:{HR}And himself the Most High will establish her.