A Psalm of a Song for the sons of Core. His foundations are in the holy mountains.
The Lord loves the gates of , more than all the of Jacob.
Glorious things have been spoken of thee, O city of God. Pause.
I will make mention of Raab and Babylon to them that know me: behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these were born there.
A man shall say, Sion [is my] mother; and [such] a man was born in her; and the Highest himself has founded her.
The Lord shall recount [it] in the writing of the people, and of these princes that were born in her. Pause.
The dwelling of all within thee is as [the dwelling] of those that rejoice.