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Psalms 87:3

Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah

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ASV

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. [Selah

KJV

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

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6 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
נִ֭כְבָּדוֹתNikh.ba.dotglorious [things]H3513 →
מְדֻבָּ֣רme.du.Bar[is] spokenH1696 →
בָּ֑ךְBakhin you
עִ֖יר'irO city ofH5892 →
הָאֱלֹהִ֣יםha.'E.lo.Him<the> GodH430 →
סֶֽלָה׃Se.lahSelahH5542 →

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Ezekiel 37:27–28My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.Ezekiel 36:11–38I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.Isaiah 60:14The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.Revelation 21:10–27And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,Psalms 48:1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.Psalms 48:2–3Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.Hebrews 12:22–23Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angelsRevelation 14:1Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.Jeremiah 31:12–13They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.Song of Solomon 5:9How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?Hebrews 12:22Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angelsRevelation 3:12The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.Isaiah 49:14–26But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”Isaiah 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”Psalms 46:4There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.Jeremiah 3:14–17“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.Isaiah 59:20“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD.Psalms 48:11–13Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.

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