{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa087.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa087.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa087.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nHis--that is, God's\nfoundation--or, what He has founded, that is, Zion (Isa 14:32).\nis in the holy mountains--the location of Zion, in the wide sense, for the capital, or Jerusalem, being on several hills.\ngates--for the enclosures, or city to which they opened (Psa 9:14; Psa 122:2; compare Psa 132:13-14).\nspoken of thee--or, \"in thee,\" that is, the city of God (Psa 46:4; Psa 48:2).\nThis is what is spoken by God.\nto them . . . me--literally, \"for My knowers,\" they are true worshippers (Psa 36:10; Isa 19:21). These are mentioned as specimens.\nthis--that is, nation\nwas born there--Of each it is said, \"This was born,\" or is a native of Zion, spiritually.\nThe writer resumes--\nThis and that man--literally, \"man and man,\" or many (Gen 14:10; Exo 8:10, Exo 8:14), or all (Isa 44:5; Gal 3:28).\nthe highest . . . her--God is her protector.\nThe same idea is set forth under the figure of a register made by God (compare Isa 4:3).\nAs in a great procession of those thus written up, or registered, seeking Zion (Isa 2:3; Jer 50:5), \"the singers\" and \"players,\" or pipers, shall precede.\nall my springs--So each shall say, \"All my sources of spiritual joy are in Thee\" (Psa 46:4; Psa 84:6).","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 87","type":"page"}