As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
Parallel translations
- WEB Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”
- BSB Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”
- NKJV Both the singers and the players on instruments say, “All my springs are in you.”
- NASB Then those who sing as well as those who play the flutes will say, “All my springs of joy are in you.”
- NLT The people will play flutes and sing, “The source of my life springs from Jerusalem!”
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Quick answer
Singers and dancers declare that all their springs are in Zion. The city of God is the source of all true joy and life.
Overview
The psalm ends in festive worship, with all confessing that their fountains of life and gladness are found in God's city. Every source of refreshment flows from God's presence there. This points to Christ, who gives living water and from whom His people draw all springs of joy and salvation.
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- Ps 36:9For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
- John 1:16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
- Isa 12:3Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
- Rev 22:17And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
- Rev 21:6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
- John 4:14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
- 2 Sam 6:14And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
- John 7:37–39In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
- Rev 22:1And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
- Rev 14:1–3And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
- 1 Chr 23:5Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
- John 4:10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
- Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
- Ps 46:4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
- Ps 68:24–25They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
- 1 Chr 25:1–6Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
- 1 Chr 15:16–29And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
- Ps 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
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