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' [chowleel, from chaalal (H2490): So Gesenius] (1 Kings 1:40, the Piel conjugation); but Hengstenberg takes it 'dancers' [from chuwl (H2342), as in Judges 21:21; Judges 21:23]. Singers and dancers headed every great procession. The redeemed pagan, like Israel under Moses and Miriam's leading after the deliverance at the Red Sea (Exodus 15:20-21), sing a joyous thanksgiving to the Lord, in praise of Him and His Zion (2 Samuel 6:16; Psalms 149:3; Psalms 150:4, "Praise Him with the timbrel and dance").
"All my springs are in thee." This clause is to be read with inverted commas, as forming the burden of the thansgiving song of "the singers" and "the players" They all alike, as newborn citizens of Zion, praise it as the site of the fountain of their salvation. There they drank the soul-quickening waters of life that flow from God (Psalms 36:8; Psalms 46:4; Psalms 84:6; Isaiah 12:3). So in Ezekiel 47:1; Ezekiel 47:8-9, the holy waters are seen to "issue out from under the threshold of the house (the renewed temple at Jerusalem), eastward ... and go down into the desert, and go into the sea," etc. The desert and the Dead Sea are here the emblems of the spiritually barren and dead pagan world; and the waters that flow into them, so as to give fertility and life, represent the Gospel, emanating on every side from Zion, its seat and center. "Are in THEE" - i:e., in Zion (Isaiah 45:14).