Psalms 87:7
They have lain me in the lower pit: in dark places and in the shadow of death.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
In Context
8Your fury has been confirmed over me. And you have brought all your waves upon me.
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:14And David danced with all his ability before the Lord. And David was girded with the linen ephod.
1 Chronicles 23:5Moreover, four thousand were porters. And the same number were the singers of psalms to the Lord, with the musical instruments which he had made for the music.
Psalms 36:9For those who are malicious will be exterminated. But those who remain with the Lord, these will inherit the land.
Psalms 68:24Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.
Psalms 149:3Let them praise his name in chorus. Let them sing psalms to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.
Ezekiel 47:1And he turned me back to the gate of the house. And behold, waters went out, from under the threshold of the house, toward the east. For the face of the house looked toward the east. But the waters descended on the right side of the temple, toward the south of the altar.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 87:5-7
The Glory of Zion. 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. Zion is here compared with other places, and preferred before them;… Read the whole commentary →