KJV King James Version
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. Selah.
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Psalm 87:6
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. Selah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
Jehovah will count, when he writeth up the peoples, This one was born there. [Selah
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Jehovah doth recount in the describing of the peoples, ‘This one was born there.’ Selah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 87
3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this [man] was born there.
5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. Selah.
7 As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]: all my springs [are] in thee.
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Isaiah 4:3And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in Zion, and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, [even] every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:Luke 10:20Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.Revelation 20:15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.Ezekiel 13:9And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.Philippians 4:3And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and [with] other my fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the book of life.Psalm 69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.Psalm 22:30A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.Revelation 13:8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.Jeremiah 3:19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.Ezekiel 9:4And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.Galatians 4:26-31But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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