Psalms 87:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 87:5

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”

YLT

And of Zion it is said: Each one was born in her, And He, the Most High, doth establish her.

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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20 verses on the floor

Romans 8:31
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Isaiah 14:32
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
Ezekiel 48:35
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there.
1 Peter 1:23–24
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Galatians 3:26–28
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

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17 , "This is Zion whom no man seeketh after"), yet God had done great things for her, and spoken glorious things of her, which should all have their perfection and accomplishment in the gospel-church; to that therefore we must have an eye in singing this psalm. A psalm or song for the sons of Korah. 1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

A man, a man was born in her, by which some understand Christ, that man, that son of man, who is fairer than the children of men; he was born at Bethlehem near Zion, and was the glory of his people Israel. The greatest honour that ever was put upon the Jewish nation was, that of them, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, Rom. ix.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The writer resumes-- This and that man--literally, "man and man," or many (Ge 14:10; Ex 8:10, 14), or all (Isa 44:5; Ga 3:28). the highest . . . her--God is her protector.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Man and man, all sorts of men without difference of nations. Establish - And this shall not be a transient, but a lasting work; Zion shall continue in its strength and fertility because the Almighty God is her founder and protector.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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