1 To the children of Core, a Psalm of Canticle. The foundations thereof in the holy mountains:
1 For the sons of Core. A psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:
2 our Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the Tabernacles of Jacob.
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.
3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.
4 I will be mindful of Rahab, and Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, & the people of the Æthiopians, these were there.
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 it not be said of Sion: Man and man, is born in her; and the Highest himself founded her?
5 Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.
6 Our Lord will declare in scriptures of peoples, and of Princes: of those that have been in her.
6 The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.
7 The habitation in thee, is as it were of all rejoicing.
7 The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.