Psalm 86: Sion Our Mother. For Those Seeking Peace Through the Church.

The past and the future glories of Jerusalem. This psalm is a prophetical vision of the Church, the true Sion, the mother of all nations.

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Psalm 86: Prayer Audio in Latin

{86:1} Filiis Core, Psalmus Cantici. Fundamenta eius in montibus sanctis:
{86:1} A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Its foundations are in the holy mountains:

{86:2} diligit Dominus portas Sion super omnia tabernacula Iacob.
{86:2} the Lord loves the gates of Zion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

{86:3} Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, civitas Dei.
{86:3} Glorious things are being said of you, O City of God.

{86:4} Memor ero Rahab, et Babylonis scientium me. Ecce alienigenæ, et Tyrus, et populus Æthiopum, hi fuerunt illic.
{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 have been there.

{86:5} Numquid Sion dicet: Homo, et homo natus est in ea: et ipse fundavit eam Altissimus?
{86:5} Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.

{86:6} Dominus narrabit in scripturis populorum, et principum: horum, qui fuerunt in ea.
{86:6} The Lord will explain, in the writings of peoples and of leaders, about those who have been in her.

{86:7} Sicut lætantium omnium habitatio est in te.
{86:7} For so the dwelling place within you is with all rejoicing.