1 For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are the holy mountains:
2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.
4 I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.
5 Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.
6 The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.
7 The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.
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Today's Verse
The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep thy precepts.
Verse Of The DayDavid's confidence rests on the character described in Psalms 86:5, that the Lord is 'ready to forgive, and plenteous in mercy,' a promise later echoed in Jeremiah 32:38-39. The prayer ends asking for a visible token of God's help against his accusers.
