Holy Scripture
Psalms 86:5
A church father on this verse
“"For Thou, Lord, art good and gracious" (ver. 5). ...Even prayers are often hindered by vain thoughts, so that the heart scarcely remains fixed on God: and it would hold itself so as to be fixed, and somehow flees from itself, and finds no frames in which it can enclose itself, no bars by which it may keep in its flig…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5A man shall say, Zion is my mother; And such a man was born in her; And the Highest himself has founded her.
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3Glorious things have been spoken of thee, O city of God. Pause.
4I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: Behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: These were born there.
— Psalms 86:5 —
6The Lord shall recount it in the writing of the people, And of these princes that were born in her. Pause.
7The dwelling of all within thee is as the dwelling of those that rejoice.