The people will play flutes and sing, “The source of my life springs from Jerusalem!”
Parallel translations
- WEB Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”
- KJV As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
- 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.”
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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 you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
- John 1:16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
- Isa 12:3Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
- Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
- Rev 21:6He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
- John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
- 2 Sam 6:14David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.
- John 7:37–39Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
- Rev 22:1He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
- Rev 14:1–3I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
- 1 Chr 23:5four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
- John 4:10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
- Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
- Ps 46:4There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
- Ps 68:24–25They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
- 1 Chr 25:1–6Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:
- 1 Chr 15:16–29David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
- Ps 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
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