Ps 87:1-7. This triumphal song was probably occasioned by the same event as the forty-sixth [see on Ps 46:1, title]. The writer celebrates the glory of the Church, as the means of spiritual blessing to the nation.
1. His--that is, God's
foundation--or, what He has founded, that is, Zion
(Isa 14:32).
is in the holy mountains--the location of Zion, in the wide sense,
for the capital, or Jerusalem, being on several hills.
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