Psalm 87 (Fundamenta ejus)

Founded upon the hills of holinesse
Gods city stands: who more love beareth
To gates of Sion high in lowlinesse,
Then all the townes that Juda reareth.
City of God, in Gods decree
What noble things are said of thee!

I will, saith he, hence foorth be numbered
Egipt and Babell with my knowers.
That Palestine and Tyre, which combered
The fathers, with the after-goers
Shall joyne: soe Æthiope from whence
The borne shall be, as borne from hence.

Yea this, men shall of Sion signify:
To him, and him it gave first breathing;
Which highest God shall highly dignify,
Eternall stay to it bequeathing.
Jehova this account shall make,
When he of his shall muster take.

That he, and he who ever named be,
Shall be as borne in Sion named:
In Sion shall my musique framed be,
Of lute and voice most sweetly framed:
I will, saith he, to Sion bring
Of my fresh fountaines ev'ry spring.