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Verse Psalms 87:7. _AS WELL THE SINGERS, C._] Perhaps, this may mean
no more than, The burden of the songs of all the singers and
choristers shall be, "All my fountains (ancestors and posterity) are...
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AS WELL THE SINGERS AS THE PLAYERS ON INSTRUMENTS SHALL BE THERE -
literally, “The singers as the players on instruments.” The image
is that of a musical procession, where the singers go before, follo...
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Psalms 87
Zion and Its Coming Glories
Another Korah Psalm. Zion is the object of Jehovah's love where He
will manifest His glory. Glorious things are spoken of the city of
God. This we learn from ma...
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LXXXVII. ZION THE MOTHER OF ALL YAHWEH'S PEOPLE. When this Ps. was
written, the Jews were scattered everywhere in the known world. But
every true Jew recognised Jerusalem as his mother city. The glory...
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THE SINGERS. they that shout.
THE PLAYERS ON INSTRUMENTS. they that dance, as in bringing up the
Ark. See note on the subscription.
SHALL BE THERE. Supply _Ellipsis_: "[shall say of Zion]".
SPRINGS...
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Conclusion. The Psalm ends as abruptly as it began, with a verse which
is enigmatic in its brevity. It is best explained as an outline
picture of the universal rejoicing with which the citizens of Zio...
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AS WELL THE SINGERS, &C.— The literal version of the Hebrew is,
_They shall sing like those who lead up the dance: all my springs are
in thee: i.e._ "They shall sing very joyfully, and the burden of t...
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PSALMS 87
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
The Glorious Destiny of Zion as the Metropolis of the Nations.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 87:1-3, Jehovah's Preferential Love for Zion
Declared. Stanza II., Psalms 87:4-...
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As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all
my springs are in thee.
AS WELL THE SINGERS AS THE PLAYERS ON INSTRUMENTS SHALL BE THERE -
`the players on pipes' or 'flutes' ...
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87:7 dancers (d-7) Or 'pipers,' 'players on instruments.'...
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This Ps. expands the thought of Psalms 86:9. Zion is the chosen
dwelling of God (Psalms 87:1), the spiritual birthplace of the other
nations (Psalms 87:4), and the source of joy to them all ...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
THE TWO JERUSALEMS
PSALMS 87
JESUS SAID, "YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN". (JOHN 3:7)...
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The literal sense of this most obscure verse is —
“And singers as trumpeters
All my springs in Thee,
which we may paraphrase, keeping in the same line with the rest of the
psalm, _For such an one_ (c...
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וְ שָׁרִ֥ים כְּ חֹלְלִ֑ים כָּֽל
־מַעְיָנַ֥י ב
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Psalms 87:1
ONE clear note sounds in this remarkable psalm. Its single theme is
the incorporation of ancestral foes and distant nations with the
people of God. Aliens are to be enrolled as home-born c...
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CITIZENS OF ZION
Psalms 87:1
This psalm blends in one great congregation the ancient foes of Israel
and the Chosen People. It is a vision of the Holy Universal Church.
The _Selahs_ divide it into th...
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This is a prophecy. The singer is looking on. The order of the earthly
realisation of the Kingdom of God is seen as established. First, the
city is contemplated at the centre of everything, with Jehov...
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As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]:
all my (g) springs [are] in thee.
(g) The prophet sets his whole affections and comfort in the church....
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PSALM LXXXVII. (DOMINE DEUS SALUTIS.)
A prayer of one under grievous affliction: it agrees to Christ in his
passion, and allude to his death and burial.
They. Hebrew, "thou hast." --- Shadow. Hebrew...
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This is the just and unavoidable conclusion of all that went before.
There can be no source, no spring, no fountain, but in Jesus.
Everything of life, and light, and salvation, grace here, glory
herea...
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The meaning of this verse is obscure, partly from its abrupt brevity,
and partly from the ambiguity of one word. The word _springs _is,
beyond all controversy, to be here taken metaphorically; but
int...
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Psalms 87 views Zion as founded of God, a city which has foundations.
Men had cities, and boasted of them; but God had a city He founded in
the holy mountains. Even here it was not Joseph or the richn...
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AS WELL THE SINGERS AS THE PLAYERS ON THE INSTRUMENTS SHALL BE
THERE,.... In Zion, in the church; signifying that there should be
great spiritual joy there when the above things should be
accomplished...
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As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]:
all my springs [are] in thee.
Ver. 7. _As well the singers as the players, &c._] There shall be an
exuberancy of joy in the Holy Gh...
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_As well the singers, &c., shall be there_ That is, in the church, and
among the people of God. Indeed God's people have the greatest, nay,
the only cause of rejoicing, being his children, and heirs,...
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As well the singers, those praising the Lord with hymns of
thanksgiving, AS THE PLAYERS ON INSTRUMENTS, those who leap and spring
for joy in honor of the Lord, as David did when he brought the Ark of...
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THE CHURCH OF GOD THE SPIRITUAL BIRTHPLACE OF THE NATIONS.
A psalm or song for the sons of Korah, a triumphal hymn in the strain
of these inspired singers, celebrating the glory of the Church as the...
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4-7 The church of Christ is more glorious and excellent than the
nations of the earth. In the records of heaven, the meanest of those
who are born again stand registered. When God renders to every ma...
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There shall be great rejoicing and praising God, both with vocal and
instrumental music, for this glorious and stupendous work of the
conversion of the Gentiles. He describes evangelical worship by le...
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CONTENTS: God's favor to Zion and His great love for it.
CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist.
CONCLUSION: God has expressed a particular affection for Jerusalem
because there He met and conversed with His peo...
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Psalms 87:1. _His foundation is in the holy mountains._ The hills of
Zion and Moriah were both holy. The exordium is bold and abrupt.
Mystically, the spiritual Zion, built on the foundation of the
pro...
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_As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there._
MUSIC AN EPITOME OF LIFE
Music does a great many things for us. It pleases the senses, it
affords aesthetic delight, it calms perpl...
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_His foundation is in the holy mountains._
A MATERIAL PORTRAIT OF THE SPIRITUAL CHURCH
I. It is glorious in its elevation (Psalms 87:1). The spiritual Church
is a city set upon a hill. Though elevat...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 87:1. This is a psalm celebrating Zion as
the chosen city of God. It looks forward to people of all
nations—even nations that have been Israel’s enemies—becoming
citizens of...
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_.—“_A Psalm of Song for the sons of Korah_.” It
so far combines the properties of a religious _Psalm_ and a patriotic
_song_ that either of the names may with propriety b...
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EXPOSITION
THIS short psalm, opening with the praise of Zion, or of the Jewish
Church (Psalms 87:1), passes into a glorification of the Church
universal, when all the nations have come into it (Psalms...
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His foundation is in the holy mountains. The LORD loves the gates of
Zion more than all of the dwellings of Jacob (Psalms 87:1-2).
So it's sort of a psalm which extols the city of Jerusalem which is...
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1 Chronicles 15:16; 1 Chronicles 23:5; 1 Chronicles 25:1; Isaiah 12:3;...
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Singers — There shall be great rejoicing and praising God, both with
vocal and instrumental musick, for this glorious work of the
conversion of the Gentiles. He describe's evangelical worship, by
lega...