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Psalm 100:1-5

Shout for Joy to the Lord, All You Lands! | A Psalm of Thanksgiving (NRSV)

(CEB)* 1 Shout triumphantly to the LORD, all the earth! 2Serve the LORD with celebration! Come before him with shouts of joy! 3 Know that the LORD is God—he made us; we belong to him. We are his people, the sheep of his own pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanks; enter his courtyards with praise! Thank him! Bless his name! 5 Because the LORD is good, his loyal love lasts forever; his faithfulness lasts generation after generation.

*(Common English Bible)  View text in: AMP | GNT | KJV | MSG | NET | NIV | NLT | NRSVUE | VOICE

COMMENTARY/RESOURCES:

OVERVIEW: “Psalm 100. The psalmist celebrates the fact that Israel has a special relationship to God and summons worshipers to praise the Lord for his faithfulness.” (New English Translation notes) “The psalmist exhorted the congregation to serve the Lord with gladness because He is the Creator, and to enter His temple with much thanksgiving because He is good and faithful.” (Bible Knowledge Commentary (BKC)) “Psalm 100 is the only psalm that is explicitly identified as ‘a psalm for giving thanks.’ It is the very quintessence of thanksgiving.” (An Expositional Commentary (BOICE))

1             Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. (KJV)

(NIV) Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

COMMENTARY: “The psalm opens with a hymnic call to sing the praise of God with shouts of joy. The echo of the exultant joy in God shall resound not only in the midst of the festal congregation in the Temple; it shall be heard in ‘all the lands’. In the presence of God the members of the worshipping congregation felt themselves united with all his worshippers in one great communion of faith.” (The Old Testament Library (OTL))

2             Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. (KJV)

(NRSV) Worship the Lord with gladness; come into his presence with singing.

(VOICE) Serve the Eternal gladly; enter into His presence singing songs of joy!

COMMENTARY: Serve the Lord with gladness) “That is, In your worship, and in all your acts of obedience. Let there be joy in this service. Let it not be with the fear of slaves; not as a matter of compulsion and force; not with reluctance, moroseness, or gloom. Let it be a cheerful, happy service; let it be freely rendered, let it be an occasion of joy to the soul. The service of God is a source of the highest joy that man knows.” (Notes on the Old and the New Testaments (BARNES))

“The pilgrims from various lands who gathered to the feast betokened the Lord’s world-wide rule. Serve the Lord with gladness: The word serve is a technical term for performing as servants or subjects what is proper in worship. But gladness is the mark of the service rendered to the Lord. The gladness expresses itself in jubilant singing as his people draw near to his sanctuary.” (The Interpreter’s Bible (IB), p533)

METACOMMENT: “Serving the Lord is not limited to public worship. To serve is to do something,—to do something for one's self and for others. It means the performance of the daily duties in the home, in the office, in the place of business. One serves when he does whatever is required of him, and whatever it is his duty to do. If he does so honestly, thoroughly, and gladly, he serves the Lord. One is in God's presence all the time, and it is his privilege to know this; if he does, he is glad and sings. One may sing without being heard audibly. True singing includes right thinking, and the audible expression in song is in order at the opportune time. The results of true singing—whether audible or inaudible—are health and holiness, joy and peace, love to God and goodwill towards men.” (Odom, Brigman C., “Glad Service”, Sentinel Vol. 3 (14 March 1925), p. 546.

JSH-Online: https://sentinel.christianscience.com/issues/1925/3/27-28/glad-service

3             Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. (KJV)

(AMP) Know (perceive, recognize, and understand with approval) that the Lord is God! It is He Who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His]! We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

(NEB) Know that the LORD is God; he has made us and we are his own, his people, the flock which he shepherds.

COMMENTARY: “The LORD is God, i.e., he alone is God, and there is none beside him. He…made us and as creator he claims us. But better still, he adopts us, we are his people, the special flock which he wishes to shepherd. By such a tender figure the character of the LORD’s dominion over Israel is defined. It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves is a translation of a text which was the result of a correction of the scribes confessedly made ‘from motives of reverence’ or to avoid anthropomorphic suggestions.” (The Interpreter’s Bible (IB), p534)

4             Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. (KJV)

(CEB) Enter his gates with thanks; enter his courtyards with praise! Thank him! Bless his name!

(FENTON) Come enter His Gates, then, with thanks, Extol Him with praise in His Courts, By blessing His Name.

(TPT) You can pass through his open gates with the password of praise. Come right into his presence with thanksgiving. Come bring your thank offering to him and affectionately bless his beautiful name!

COMMENTARY: “The opening words of the second part of the psalm were probably sung by the choir of priests, before the festival congregation passed through the gates of the Temple and entered its forecourts. As in the first part of the psalm, they begin with a call to enter the sanctuary with songs of praise in order to testify there to God and to praise his name.” (The Old Testament Library (OTL), p647)

Thanksgiving/praise) “The Rabbis affirmed that while all other offerings would cease, not so the thank-offering (Midrash Shocher Tov). By this they intended that the need for sin-offerings, etc. might conceivably be no more, but the call on man’s sentiment of gratitude to God must always exist.” (Soncino Books of the Bible (SONCINO))

5             For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. (KJV)

(GNT) The Lord is good; his love is eternal and his faithfulness lasts forever.

(TPT) For the Lord is always good and ready to receive you. He’s so loving that it will amaze you—so kind that it will astound you! And he is famous for his faithfulness toward all. Everyone knows our God can be trusted, for he keeps his promises to every generation!

COMMENTARY: “‘For the Lord is good.’ The God of the Bible is and has always been good. When he created the world and all that is in it, he saw that it was ‘good’ (Genesis 1:4-31). The word gospel means the ‘good news,’ The very word God is a shortened form of ‘good.’” (An Expositional Commentary (BOICE)) “The shout of the goodness of God in this verse is buttressed by an appeal to His mercy and His truth. The Hebrew word for truth comes from the root meaning ‘to be established’ or ‘to be confirmed.’ From this root also comes the word amen, meaning ‘surely’ or ‘truly.’ God's goodness is based on His loyal love and His truth.” (Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Commentary (NNIBC))

METACOMMENT: “If one consider the present sense of God's goodness, which is apparent on every hand, he will see he has much, even from the merely human standpoint, for which to be grateful. Christian Science, however, unfolds to the willing thinker of good such marvels of divine Truth and Love that, whatever the lying testimony of the material senses, one can still say from the heart, "Father, I thank thee." Yes, the Christian Scientist can always say: I thank Thee, dear Father, that Thou and Thou alone art All; that in all of infinitude naught is but Thee and Thy perfections; that here and now man exists as Thy perfect reflection, conscious of Thy marvelous good!! Thus, with the truth as revealed in Christian Science each one may understand how to thank God for all the incomparable glories of reality, although they may still seem remote from complete realization. With thought held to such steadfast contemplation of spiritual good, each will find his thanksgiving made perfect. Doing thus, even the complaining sense, which would argue there is nothing to be grateful for, will be silenced; and this understanding of realities will also reveal, embrace, and protect every least present sense of good.” (Hoag, Ella W., “Thanksgiving Day”, Journal Vol. 40 (November 1922), p. 327.)

JSH-Online: https://journal.christianscience.com/issues/1922/11/40-8/thanksgiving-day

NOTES:

Biblical abbreviations and copyright information:

(ABP) Apostolic Bible Polyglot, Copyright © 1996, Charles Van der Pool. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

(AMP) Amplified® Bible,
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
Used by permission.

(ARAMAIC) The Original Aramaic New Testament in Plain English with Psalms & Proverbs, Rev. David Bausher .Copyright 2007. 8th Edition Copyright 2013, All rights reserved. Used by permission.

(BBE) Bible in Basic English, public domain.

(BRENTON) Brenton’s English Septuagint, published in 1851, public domain.

(CEB) Common English Bible, Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible

(CEV) Contemporary English Version, Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society.

(CJB) Complete Jewish Bible, Copyright © 1998, by David H. Stern. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

(DARBY) Darby Bible, public domain.

(DRB) Douay-Rheims Bible, public domain.

(EMP) Emphasized Bible by James Rotherham, public domain.

(ERV) Easy-to-Read Version, Copyright © 1987, 1999, 2006, 2008, by World Bible Translation Center. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

(EMTV) English Majority Text Version, Copyright © 2002-2003. Paul W. Esposito. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

(ESV) English Standard Version, Good News Publishers.

(EXB) The Expanded Bible, Copyright © 2011, Thomas Nelson Inc., All rights reserved.

(FENTON) Ferrar Fenton Translation, public domain.

(GNB) Good News Bible - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.

(GSNT) Goodspeed New Testament, Edgar J. Goodspeed, Copyright 1951, University of Chicago Press. Used by permission.

(GW) God’s Word® Translation, © 1995 God’s Word to the Nations. Used by permission of Baker Publishing Group.

(HCSB) Holman Christian Standard Bible, Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

(ISV) International Standard Version, registered trademarks of the ISV Foundation. Copyright © 1996, 2010, by the ISV Foundation. Used by permission of Davidson Press. All rights reserved.

(KJV) King James Version, public domain.

(LAMSA) George Lamsa Translation, from the Aramaic of the Peshitta, Copyright © 1933, 1939, 1940, 1557, 1961 1967, 1868, A.J. Holman Co.

(LEB) Lexham English Bible, Copyright © 2012 by Logos Bible Software. Lexam is a registered trademark of Logos Bible Software

(LXX) Septuagint or Greek Version of the Old Testament, public domain.

(MOFF) The Bible, A Translation by James Moffatt, Copyright  1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, James A.R. Moffatt.

(MURDOCK) James Murdock New Testament, public domain. A translation of the Peshito Syriac New Testament into English by James Murdock, 1851.

(MSG) The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, Copyright © 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.

(NASB) New American Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California.  All rights reserved.

(NCV) New Century Version, Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

(NEB) New English Bible, Copyright © 1972 by the British and Foreign Bible Society.  All rights reserved.

(NET) New English Translation, Copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.

(NIV) The Holy Bible New International Version®,
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society®
. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

(NJB) New Jerusalem Bible, Copyright  1985, by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd. And Doubleday. All rights reserved.

(NLT) Holy Bible, The New Living Translation, Copyright © 1996 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

(NRSV) New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches in the U.S.A. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

(PHIL) The New Testament in Modern English, by JB Phillips Copyright © 1958, 1960, 1972 by JB Phillips. All rights reserved.

(RSV) The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version, Copyright 1946, 1952, 1959, 1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches in the U.S.A. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

(TPT) The Passion Translation®. Copyright © 2017 by BroadStreet Publishing® Group, LLC. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

(VOICE) The Voice Bible, Copyright © 2012 Thomas Nelson, Inc. The Voice™ translation © 2012 Ecclesia Bible Society All rights reserved.

(WNT) Weymouth New Testament (Modern Speech New Testament), public domain.

(WYC) Wycliffe Bible, Copyright 2001, by Terence P. Noble.

(YOUNG) Young’s Literal Translation, public domain.

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Psalm 100:1-5

Shout for Joy to the Lord, All You Lands! | A Psalm of Thanksgiving (NRSV)