Psalms 87:7

King James Version

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The people will play flutes and sing, "The source of my life springs from Jerusalem!"

English Revised Version
They that sing as well as they that dance shall say, All my fountains are in thee.

Update Bible Version
Those that sing as well as those that dance [shall say], All my fountains are in you.

New Century Version
They will dance and sing, "All good things come from Jerusalem."

New English Translation
As for the singers, as well as the pipers— all of them sing within your walls.

Webster's Bible Translation
As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]: all my springs [are] in thee.

World English Bible
Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you."

Amplified Bible
The singers as well as the players of flutes will say, "All my springs and sources of joy are in you [Jerusalem, city of God]."

English Standard Version
Singers and dancers alike say, "All my springs are in you."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As the dwellyng `of alle that ben glad; is in thee.

Berean Standard Bible
Singers and pipers will say: "All my springs of joy are in You."

Contemporary English Version
All who sing or dance will say, "I too am from Zion."

American Standard Version
They that sing as well as they that dance shall say, All my fountains are in thee.

Bible in Basic English
The players on instruments will be there, and the dancers will say, All my springs are in you.

Complete Jewish Bible
Singers and dancers alike say, "For me, you are the source of everything."

Darby Translation
As well the singers as the dancers [shall say], All my springs are in thee.

Easy-to-Read Version
At the festivals, people will dance and sing, "All good things come from Zion."

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And whether they sing or dance, all my thoughts are in Thee.

King James Version (1611)
As wel the singers as the players on instruments shall bee there: all my springs are in thee.

New Life Bible
Then those who sing and those who play music will say, "All my wells of joy are in you."

New Revised Standard
Singers and dancers alike say, "All my springs are in you."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Aswell the singers as the players on instruments shall prayse thee: all my springs are in thee.

George Lamsa Translation
The princes who dwell in you shall rejoice, and all that are humbled in you.

Good News Translation
They dance and sing, "In Zion is the source of all our blessings."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As well the singers as the flute-players are saying , - All my springs, are in thee!

Douay-Rheims Bible
(86-7) The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

Revised Standard Version
Singers and dancers alike say, "All my springs are in you."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the singers aswell as the players of instrumentes: yea al my fountaines are in thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The dwelling of all within thee is as the dwelling of those that rejoice.

Christian Standard Bible®
Singers and dancers alike will say,“My whole source of joy is in you.”

Hebrew Names Version
Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you."

Lexham English Bible
And while dancing, singers will sing, "All my springs are in you."

Literal Translation
And the singers, the players of the pipe: all my springs are in You.

Young's Literal Translation
Singers also as players on instruments, All my fountains [are] in Thee!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sela. Therfore the dwellinge of all syngers & daunsers is in the.

THE MESSAGE
Singers and dancers give credit to Zion: "All my springs are in you!"

New American Standard Bible
Then those who sing as well as those who play the flutes will say, "All my springs of joy are in you."

New King James Version
Both the singers and the players on instruments say, "All my springs are in you."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then those who sing as well as those who play the flutes shall say, "All my springs of joy are in you."

Legacy Standard Bible
And singers, just like the dancers, will all say,"All my springs are in you."

Contextual Overview

⁴ I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. ⁵ And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. ⁶ The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. ⁷ As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

Bible Verse Review
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As well: Psalms 68:24, Psalms 68:25, 1 Chronicles 15:16-29, 1 Chronicles 23:5, 1 Chronicles 25:1-6, Revelation 14:1-3

all my: Psalms 46:4, Isaiah 12:3, John 1:16, John 4:10, John 4:14, John 7:37-39, James 1:17, Revelation 21:6, Revelation 22:1, Revelation 22:17

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 7:6 - the Levites 2 Chronicles 29:26 - the instruments

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As well the singers as the players on the instruments shall be there,.... In Zion, in the church; signifying that there should be great spiritual joy there when the above things should be accomplished; great joy in the churches, because of the conversion of Jews and Gentiles; and great joy in the persons themselves, born again, and brought to Zion; in allusion to the vocal and instrumental music used in the temple service; see Isaiah 35:10

all my springs are in thee; which are either the words of the psalmist, or rather of the souls born in Zion; who, in their spiritual songs, will thus express themselves concerning the church, in which are the word and ordinances, compared to fountains of living water, and are springs of spiritual peace and refreshment to converted persons; see Joel 3:18, where also the Spirit and his graces are communicated by the ministry of the word and ordinances in the church, which are signified by wells and rivers of living water, John 4:14 and particularly here stands Christ, the fountain of gardens, and well of living waters, for the supply and comfort of saints, and his blood a fountain opened for cleansing and purification, Song of Solomon 4:15, yea, here flows the river of God's love, the streams whereof make glad the city of God; and which, like the waters in Ezekiel's vision, come from under the threshold of the sanctuary,

Psalms 46:4 or the words may be considered as an address of the psalmist, or of the church, or of regenerate persons, unto Christ:

all my springs or fountains are in thee; the fulness of grace dwells in him, the springs of all joy, and peace, and comfort, are with him; the wells of salvation are in him, and both grace and glory are from him; he is the spring of all grace now, and the fountain of all happiness hereafter. Gussetius z has a very peculiar version of the whole text, which he renders thus

"all my fountains will be singing in thee, or of thee, as those that dance at the sound of the pipe:''

taking the allusion to be to the playing of fountains in gardens, and to the delightful sound the waters make; but the accents will not admit of such a sense.

z Comment. Ebr. p. 845.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As 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 as in a triumphal procession. Compare the notes at Isaiah 35:10. Perhaps the reference is to heaven - the true Zion; to the assembling of all who shall have been born in Zion, and who shall have become citizens of the true Zion, the Jerusalem above.

All my springs are in thee - The word rendered springs means properly a place of fountains (see the notes at Psalms 84:6), and also a fountain, Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:2. It thus becomes an emblem of happiness; of delight; of pleasure; and the ideal here is that the highest happiness of the psalmist was found in what is here referred to by the word “thee.” That word may refer either to God or to Zion; but as the subject of the psalm is Zion, it is most natural to suppose that the reference is to that. Thus it accords with the sentiment so often found in the Psalms, where the writer expresses his love for Zion; his pleasure in its solemnities; his desire to abide there as his permanent home. Compare Psalms 23:6; Psalms 84:2-4, Psalms 84:10. The idea has been beautifully expressed by Dr. Dwight, in his version of Psalms 137:6 :

“I love thy church, O God;

Her walls before thee stand,

Dear as the apple of thine eye,

And graven on thy hand.

“If e’er my heart forget

Her welfare or her woe,

Let every joy this heart forsake,

And every grief o’erflow.

“Beyond my highest joy

I prize her heavenly ways.

Her sweet communion, solemn vows,

Her hymns of love and praise.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 87:7. As well the singers, c. — 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, "habitations;" but no MS. yet discovered supports this reading.

It would be a very natural cause of exultation, when considering the great privileges of this royal city, to know that all his friends, family, and children, were citizens of this city, were entered in God's register, and were entitled to his protection and favour. Applied to the Christian Church, the privileges are still higher: born of God, enrolled among the living in Jerusalem, having their hearts purified by faith, and being washed and made clean through the blood of the covenant, and sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, such have a right to the inheritance among the saints in light. I need not add that springs, wells, fountains, and cisterns, and waters are used metaphorically in the sacred writings for children, posterity, fruitful women, people, c. see among others Proverbs 5:15-16; Psalms 68:26; Isaiah 48:1; and Revelation 17:15. The old Psalter understands the whole as relating to Gospel times; and interprets it accordingly. Bishop Horne takes it in the same sense. The whole Psalm is obscure and difficult. I will venture a literal version of the whole, with a few explanatory interpolations, instead of notes, in order to cast a little more light upon it.

1. A Psalm to be sung by the posterity of Korah. A prophetic song.

2. "Jehovah loves his foundation, the city built by him on holy mountains. He loves the gates of Zion more than all the habitations of Jacob."

3. "Honourable things are declared of thee, O city of God. Selah."

4. "I will number Egypt and Babylon among my worshippers; behold Philistia and Tyre! They shall be born in the same place." They shall be considered as born in the city of God.

5. "But of Zion it shall be said, This one, and that one," persons of different nations, "was born in it, and the Most High shall establish it."

6. "Jehovah shall reckon in the registers of the people, This one was born there."

7. "The people shall sing, as in leading up a choir, All my fountains," the springs of my happiness, "are in thee."

I have nearly followed here the version of Mr. N. M. Berlin, who wonders that there should be any doubt concerning this translation of the last verse, when Symmachus and Aquila, who must have well known the sense of the Masoretic text, have translated: Και ᾳδοντης ῳς χοροι πασαι πηγαι εν σοι· "And they shall sing, as in leading up a dance, All my fountains are in thee." The translation cannot be far from the meaning.

ANALYSIS OF THE EIGHTY-SEVENTH PSALM

This Psalm contains marks of the beauty and perfection of the Church.

1. Its foundation. The author is GOD, it is his foundation; not laid in the sand, but upon the mountains, not common, but holy mountains, Psalms 87:1.

2. The Lord loveth his Church-this assembly, beyond all others: "The Lord loveth," c., Psalms 87:2.

3. All the prophets have spoken glorious things concerning it, and have considered it as the "city of God," Psalms 87:3.

4. One of the glorious things spoken of it was the conversion of the Gentiles to it. So here Egyptians, Babylonians, Tyrians, Ethiopians, c., are to be gathered into it by regeneration. They shall all be brought to know the true God and shall be classed in the multitude of those who know him, i.e., who offer him a pure and holy worship, Psalms 87:4.

5. By having the word of God in this true Church, they shall be converted to God so that it may be said, "This and that man were born to God in it," Psalms 87:5.

6. All other cities shall decay and perish; but the Church of God, the city of the Great King, shall be established for ever, the gates of hell shall never prevail against it, Psalms 87:5.

7. The converted Gentiles shall have equal privileges with the converted Jews; and in the Christian Church they shall all be enrolled without difference or precedence, Psalms 87:6.

8. They shall enjoy a perpetual solemnity. They shall ever have cause to sing and rejoice, Psalms 87:7.

9. The highest privilege is that in God's Church he opens the fountains of living water; in his ordinances God dispenses every blessing; every sincere and upright soul rejoices in opportunities to wait on God in his ordinances. Such a one can sing, "All my springs are in thee." All other fountains are muddy; this alone is as clear as crystal. Worldly springs yield no pure delight; all there are mixed and turbulent: all here are refreshing, satisfying, delightful.