KJV King James Version
As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]: all my springs [are] in thee.
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Psalm 87:7
As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]: all my springs [are] in thee.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”
WEB World English Bible
Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”
ASV American Standard Version
They that sing as well as they that dance shall say, All my fountains are in thee.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Singers also as players on instruments, All my fountains are in Thee!
Surrounding context — Psalm 87
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.
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Psalm 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.Isaiah 12:3Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.Revelation 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.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.Revelation 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.Revelation 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.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.1 Chronicles 23:5Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise [therewith].Revelation 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.2 Samuel 6:14And David danced before the LORD with all [his] might; and David [was] girded with a linen ephod.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.James 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.Psalm 46:4[There is] a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the most High.Psalm 68:24-25They have seen thy goings, O God; [even] the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.1 Chronicles 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 Chronicles 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.Psalm 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
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