Verse 7
7. As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there The words “shall be there” are not in the text, and they destroy the sense. The Hebrew is exceedingly abrupt and elliptical, but the sense may be thus given: And the singers, as well as the fluters, [shall say, as the burden of their song,] All my springs are in thee, that is, in Zion. The image before the poet was that of multitudes of converts, from all nations, coming to Zion in joyful procession, with bands of singers and pipers, making Zion the theme of their song. “The Korahite author,” writes Bishop Alexander, “himself a chief singer in the sanctuary, does not grudge the admission of foreign nations into the sacred choir, but with generous and largehearted sympathy rejoices in the prospect.” Thus, also, Bishop Mant:
“With joy shall sing the choral train,
The minstrels breathe the answering strain;
‘O Zion, Zion fair, I see The fountains of my bliss in thee.’”
“And if such be indeed the incomparable excellence of the Church, and such the benefit of her communion, as they have been set forth in the foregoing verses, what anthem better deserves to be performed by all her choirs?” Horne. Isaiah 2:3; Isaiah 12:3; John 4:22.
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