Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 87:7
7Singers and dancers alike will say, “My whole source of joy is in you.”
Psalms 87:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
- New International Version (NIV)As they make music they will sing, “All my fountains are in you.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Singers and dancers alike say, "All my springs are in you."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Both the singers and the players on instruments say, “All my springs are in you.”
Context of Psalms 87:7
5And it will be said of Zion, “This one and that one were born in her.” The Most High himself will establish her. 6When he registers the peoples, the Lord will record, “This one was born there.”Selah Singers and dancers alike will say, “My whole source of joy is in you.”
Read all of Psalms 87Psalms 87:7 word by word
וְשָׁרִ֥ים כְּחֹלְלִ֑ים כָּֽל־מַעְיָנַ֥י בָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 87:7
- Psalms 68:24People have seen your procession, God, the procession of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
- 1 Chronicles 15:16Then David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers and to have them raise their voices with joy accompanied by musical instruments — harps, lyres, and cymbals.
- 1 Chronicles 23:5four thousand are to be gatekeepers, and four thousand are to praise the Lord with the instruments that I have made for worship.”
- 1 Chronicles 25:1David and the officers of the army also set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, who were to prophesy accompanied by lyres, harps, and cymbals. This is the list of the men who performed their service:
- Revelation 14:1Then I looked, and there was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him were 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
- Psalms 46:4There is a river — its streams delight the city of God, the holy dwelling place of the Most High.
- Isaiah 12:3You will joyfully draw water from the springs of salvation,
- John 1:16Indeed, we have all received grace upon grace from his fullness,
- John 4:10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”
- John 7:37On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
- James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
- Revelation 21:6Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give to the thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
- Revelation 22:1Then he showed me the river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
Commentaries on Psalms 87:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7As well the singers, etc. - Perhaps, this may mean no more than, The burden of the songs of all the singers and choristers shall be, "All my fountains (ancestors and posterity) are in thee;" and consequently, entitled to all thy privileges and immunities. Instead of שרים sharim, "singers," many MSS. and early printed editions have, sarim, "princes." Some for מעיני mayenai, "my fountains," would read with several of the Versions, מעוני meoney…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there - literally, “The singers as the players on instruments.” The image is that of a musical procession, where the singers go before, followed by those who play on various instruments of music. The idea seems to be that when the number of the true friends of God shall be made up, or shall all be enrolled, there will be a triumphal procession; or, they are seen by the psalmist, moving before God…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-7Verses 4-7 The church of Christ is more glorious and excellent than the nations of the earth. In the records of heaven, the meanest of those who are born again stand registered. When God renders to every man according to his works, he shall observe who enjoyed the privileges of his sanctuary. To them much was given, and of them much will be required. Let those that dwell in Zion, mark this, and live up to their profession. Zion's songs shall be sung with…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-7This psalm presents Jerusalem as the city of God, where people from all nations are counted as citizens.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. As in a great procession of those thus written up, or registered, seeking Zion (Is 2:3; Jr 50:5), "the singers" and "players," or pipers, shall precede. all my springs--So each shall say, "All my sources of spiritual joy are in Thee" (Psa 46:4; 84:6).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 87
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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