Psalms 87:7
They laid me in the lowest pit, 1 In dark places, and in the shadow of death. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
8Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, 1 And thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:14And David sounded with well-tuned instruments before the Lord, and David was clothed with a fine long robe.
1 Chronicles 23:5and four thousand doorkeepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.
Psalms 36:9For evildoers shall be destroyed: 1 But they that wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the land. 1
Psalms 68:24Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; 1 And bow down their back continually. 1
Psalms 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance: 1 Let them sing praises to him with timbrel and psaltery. 1
Ezekiel 47:1And he brought me to the entrance of the house; and, behold, water issued from under the porch eastward, for the front of the house looked eastward; and the water came down from the right side, from the south to 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 →