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The City That Claims Everyone.

Psalms 87 — God opens the most exclusive registry in history and writes in every outsider

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📢 Chapter 87 — The City That Claims Everyone 🏙️

This is only seven verses — but tucked inside is a quietly radical vision. It starts as a song about , the city founded and chose above everywhere else. Then it takes a turn. God starts reading off names. And the names don't belong.

The City on the Mountain 🏔️

The opens with a declaration — no buildup, just a statement about where God's heart is:

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On the holy mountain stands the city he founded.

The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

Glorious things are spoken about you, O city of God.

Out of every location on , God had a favorite. wasn't just a strategic location. It was the place God chose to put his name. And the "glorious things" spoken about it? Still unfolding.

The Registry Nobody Expected 🌍

Here's where the turns. God starts naming nations — and every name would have made an Israelite flinch:

"Among those who know me, I count Rahab and Babylon — Philistia and Tyre, even Cush. 'This one was born there.'"

And of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one were born in her" — for the Most High himself will establish her.

The Lord records as he registers the peoples: "This one was born there."

is — the nation that enslaved for centuries. would later burn their . produced . These were enemies. And God is writing their names into birth registry. Not visitors. Born there. Citizens.

The Song Everyone Sings 🎶

The ends with celebration — singers and dancers, all saying the same thing:

Singers and dancers alike say, "All my springs are in you."

Every source of , every well of — it all flows from this city. And after the names just read — , , , , — the song isn't coming from one group. Insiders and outsiders, together: everything I need comes from here.

Seven verses. A vision of belonging so wide it still unsettles — the God of , claiming enemies as his own.