Psalm 36:9
New International Version
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

New Living Translation
For you are the fountain of life, the light by which we see.

English Standard Version
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.

Berean Standard Bible
For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

King James Bible
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

New King James Version
For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.

New American Standard Bible
For the fountain of life is with You; In Your light we see light.

NASB 1995
For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.

NASB 1977
For with Thee is the fountain of life; In Thy light we see light.

Legacy Standard Bible
For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.

Amplified Bible
For with You is the fountain of life [the fountain of life-giving water]; In Your light we see light.

Christian Standard Bible
For the wellspring of life is with you. By means of your light we see light.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for with You is life’s fountain. In Your light we will see light.

American Standard Version
For with thee is the fountain of life: In thy light shall we see light.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because the fountain of life is with you and it is in your light that we see light.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light we shall see light.

Contemporary English Version
The life-giving fountain belongs to you, and your light gives light to each of us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For with thee is the fountain of life; and in thy light we shall see light.

English Revised Version
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Indeed, the fountain of life is with you. In your light we see light.

Good News Translation
You are the source of all life, and because of your light we see the light.

International Standard Version
For with you is a fountain of life, and in your light we will see light.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For with Thee is the fountain of life; In Thy light do we see light.

Literal Standard Version
For a fountain of life [is] with You, | In Your light we see light.

Majority Standard Bible
For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

New American Bible
For with you is the fountain of life, and in your light we see light.

NET Bible
For you are the one who gives and sustains life.

New Revised Standard Version
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

New Heart English Bible
For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.

Webster's Bible Translation
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

World English Bible
For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.

Young's Literal Translation
For with Thee is a fountain of life, In Thy light we see light.

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Context
The Transgression of the Wicked
8They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights. 9For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. 10Extend Your loving devotion to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.…

Cross References
Psalm 19:8
The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

Psalm 34:5
Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.

Psalm 43:3
Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.

Psalm 87:7
Singers and pipers will proclaim, "All my springs of joy are in You."

Jeremiah 2:13
"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns--broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Daniel 2:22
He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.


Treasury of Scripture

For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.

For

Isaiah 12:3
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

John 4:10,14
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water…

in thy

Psalm 27:1
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Job 29:3
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

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(9) In thy light.--Better, by thy light. This wonderful verse inspired Milton's sublime invocation:

"The author of all being,

Fountain of light, thyself invisible

Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sitt'st."

It contains the germ of that moral and spiritual teaching which had its highest development in the Epistles of St. John. But the original intention of the words seems to be that the favour and bounty of God commend themselves as divine in origin, especially to those in the covenant relation.

Verse 9. - For with thee is the fountain of life. The ultimate source of all life is God. Israel had been taught by Moses (Deuteronomy 30:20) that God was their Life; but this was not all; he is equally the Origin of life to everything that lives - to angels, men, beasts, birds, fishes, zoophytes, plants (see Genesis 1:11, 20, 24, 27, etc.). And, as he is the sole Source of natural life, so is he also the one and only Origin of spiritual vitality (Psalm 30:5; Psalm 66:9; John 1:4; John 6:57; John 7:37-39, etc.). And in thy light shall we see light (comp. John 1:4, 5, 9; 1 John 1:5-7). God is essentially Life and Light. He "has life in himself" (John 5:26). He "is Light, and in him is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5). The Son, who is "the Light of the world" (John 8:12), is but "the Effulgence of his Father's glory" (Hebrews 1:3, Revised Version), "Light of light," the ray which streams from the Sun of the universe. Yet from him comes the light which enlighteneth all creatures (John 1:9). "In his light we see light."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

with You
עִ֭מְּךָ (‘im·mə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

is the fountain
מְק֣וֹר (mə·qō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4726: Something dug, a, source, of happiness, wisdom, progeny)

of life;
חַיִּ֑ים (ḥay·yîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

in Your light
בְּ֝אוֹרְךָ֗ (bə·’ō·wr·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary

we see
נִרְאֶה־ (nir·’eh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 7200: To see

light.
אֽוֹר׃ (’ō·wr)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary


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