What does Psalms Chapter 86 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Sion’s gates are loved above Jacob’s tabernacles. Future telling in writings remains distinct from those said to have been there. The notes’ church interpretation remains separately attributed.

Chapter breakdown

Fundamenta ejus is the incipit. The separate heading interprets the glory of the church of Christ; the inscription is a canticle for Core's sons. Foundations are in holy mountains, explained separately as apostles and prophets with an Ephesians reference. The Lord loves Sion's gates above all Jacob's tabernacles, not above every earthly dwelling. Glorious things are said of God's city.

The speaker will be mindful of Rahab and Babylon knowing him, then points to foreigners, Tyre and Ethiopians who have been there. The note identifies Rahab as Egypt and interprets many as future resorters to God's church from all nations. The question asks whether Sion shall say this and that man was born in her and the Highest founded her; it is not a completed rebirth census. The following note interprets people and princes, multitudes and kings coming to communion, foretold in prophets' writings and registered in apostles' writings.

The Lord shall tell in writings of peoples and princes who have been there. The dwelling in the city is as of all rejoicing. Future telling, the verse's birth wording and the edition's church interpretation remain distinct; Philistia, ethnic hostility and a completed citizenship enrollment are not added.

The story inside

Opening: Sion’s gates are loved above Jacob’s tabernacles. Development: Future telling in writings remains distinct from those said to have been there. Conclusion: The notes’ church interpretation remains separately attributed.

Lessons worth keeping

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Sion’s gates are loved above Jacob’s tabernacles.
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Future telling in writings remains distinct from those said to have been there.
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The notes’ church interpretation remains separately attributed.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 63180–63180
The holy mountains.... The apostles and prophets. Eph. 2.20.
Lines 63182–63183
86:2. The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
Lines 63185–63185
86:3. Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.
Lines 63187–63189
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.
Lines 63191–63192
Rahab.... Egypt, etc. To this Sion, which is the church of God, many shall resort from all nations.
Lines 63194–63195
86:5. Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.
Lines 63197–63202
Shall not Sion say, etc.... The meaning is, that Sion, viz., the church, shall not only be able to commemorate this or that particular person of renown born in her, but also to glory in great multitudes of people and princes of her communion; who have been foretold in the writings of the prophets, and registered in the writings of the apostles.
Lines 63204–63205
86:6. The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.
Lines 63207–63207
86:7. The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.