Psalm 87:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The Lord loves the gates of Zion [through which the crowds of pilgrims enter from all nations] more than all the dwellings of Jacob (Israel).

American Standard Version (1901)

² Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Common English Bible

² The LORD loves Zion’s gates more than all of Jacob’s houses combined.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.

Psalm 87:2 Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:6

but I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

Isaiah 14:32

What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The Lord has founded Zion, and the needy among his people will find refuge in her.”

Isaiah 2:2

In days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains and shall be raised above the hills; all the nations shall stream to it.

Joel 2:32

Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved, for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes as his habitation to put his name there. You shall go there,