Psalms 86 (DRB)

Chapter Text

86:1 For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are the holy mountains:

86:2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

86:3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

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.

86:5 Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

86:6 The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

86:7 The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sons", "core", "psalm", "canticle", "foundations", "thereof", "holy", and "mountains". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sons" and "core", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The local DRB text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "sons" and "core" carries the first interpretive weight. In Psalms context, the local focus is worship, trust, the LORD's kingship, and covenant mercy.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sons" and "core" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.