Psalmen 87 · Scripture Insight Network

1Een psalm, een lied voor de kinderen van Korach. Zijn grondslag is op de bergen der heiligheid.💬

2De HEERE bemint de poorten van Sion boven alle woningen van Jakob.

3Zeer heerlijke dingen worden van u gesproken, o stad Gods! Sela.

4Ik zal Rahab en Babel vermelden, onder degenen, die Mij kennen; ziet, de Filistijn, en de Tyrier, met den Moor, deze is aldaar geboren.💬

5En van Sion zal gezegd worden: Die en die is daarin geboren; en de Allerhoogste Zelf zal hen bevestigen.

6De HEERE zal hen rekenen in het opschrijven der volken, zeggende: Deze is aldaar geboren. Sela.

7En de zangers, gelijk de speellieden, mitsgaders al mijn fonteinen, zullen binnen u zijn.

Commentaar (3)

Inleiding1

Psalmen 87

Psalms 87

Matthew HenryENDevotioneel

Gereformeerd

The foregoing psalm was very plain and easy, but in this are things dark and hard to be understood. It is an encomium of Zion, as a type and figure of the gospel-church, to which what is here spoken is very applicable. Zion, for the temple's sake, is here preferred, I. Before the rest of the land of Canaan, as being crowned with special tokens of God's favour (Psa 87:1-3). II. Before any other place or country whatsoever, as being replenished with more eminent men and with a greater plenty of divine blessings (Psa 87:4-7). Some think it was penned to express the joy of God's people when Zion was in a flourishing state; others think it was penned to encourage their faith and hope when Zion was in ruins and was to be rebuilt after the captivity. Though no man cared for her (Jer 30:17, "This is Zion whom no man seeketh after"), yet God had done great things for her, and spoken glorious things of her, which should all have their perfection and accomplishment in the gospel-church; to that therefore we must have an eye in singing this psalm. A psalm or song for the sons of Korah.

Vers 11

Psalmen 87:1

Psalms 87:1

Matthew HenryENDevotioneel

Gereformeerd

Some make the first words of the psalm to be part of the title; it is a psalm or song whose subject is the holy mountains - the temple built in Zion upon Mount Moriah. This is the foundation of the argument, or beginning of the psalm. Or we may suppose the psalmist had now the tabernacle or temple in view and was contemplating the glories of it, and at length he breaks out into this expression, which has reference, though not to what he had written before,…

Vers 41

Psalmen 87:4

Psalms 87:4

Matthew HenryENDevotioneel

Gereformeerd

Zion is here compared with other places, and preferred before them; the church of Christ is more glorious and excellent than the nations of the earth. 1. It is owned that other places have their glories (Psa 87:4): "I will make mention of Rahab" (that is, Egypt) "and Babylon, to those that know me and are about me, and with whom I discourse about public affairs; behold Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia" (or rather Arabia), "we will observe that this man wa…