Psalms

Chapter 86

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    His own building amidst the inviolate hills,

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    dearer to the Lord are Sion walls than any other home in Israel.

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    How high a boast, city of God, is made for thee,

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    Mine it is to reckon the folk of Egypt, of Babylon, too, among my citizens! Philistines, Tyrians, Ethiopians, all must claim Sion as their birthplace;

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    None was ever born, the proverb shall run, that did not take his birth from her; it was the most High, none other, that founded her.

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    This was their birthplace, the Lord shall write over the muster-roll of the nations;

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    nor any but shall tell her praises with song and dance, each claiming from her its only origin.