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| 86 | 1 | For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are the holy mountains: | filiorum Core psalmus cantici fundamentum eius in montibus sanctuarii |
| 86 | 2 | The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob. | diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Iacob |
| 86 | 3 | Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God. | gloriosa dicta sunt in te civitas Dei semper |
| 86 | 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. | commemorabo superbiae et Babylonis scientes me ecce Palestina et Tyrus cum Aethiopia iste natus est ibi |
| 86 | 5 | Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her. | ad Sion autem dicetur vir et vir natus est in ea et ipse fundavit eam Excelsus |
| 86 | 6 | The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her. | Dominus numerabit scribens populos ipse natus est in ea semper |
| 86 | 7 | The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing. | et cantabunt quasi in choris omnes fontes mei in te |