Psalms 100:2

Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Serve	עִבְד֣וּ 'iv.Du	H5647	to work (in any sense) · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
LORD	יְהוָ֣ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
gladness	בְּשִׂמְחָ֑ה be.sim.Chah	H8057	blithesomeness or glee · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
come	בֹּ֥אוּ Bo.'u	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
presence	לְ֝פָנָ֗יו le.fa.Nav	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
singing	בִּרְנָנָֽה bir.na.Nah	H7445	a shout (for joy) · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
Psalms 95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Psalms 71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Deuteronomy 28:47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
2 Chronicles 20:27-28 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the L…
Acts 2:46-47 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singl…
Psalms 107:21-22 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 42:4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the vo…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 100:1–end

Here, I. The exhortations to praise are very importunate. The psalm does indeed answer to the title, A psalm of praise; it begins with that call which of late we have several times met with (Psa 100:1), Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all you lands, or all the earth, all the inhabitants of the earth. When all nations shall be discipled, and the gospel preached to every creature, then this summons will be fully answered to. But, if we take the foregoing psalm to be (as we have opened it) a call to the Jewish church to rejoice in the administration of God's kingdom, which they were under (as the four psalms before it were calculated for the days of the Messiah), this psalm, perhaps, was int…

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John Gill on Psalms 100:2

Serve the Lord with gladness,.... Not with a slavish fear, under a spirit of bondage, as the Jews under the legal dispensation; not in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the Spirit: with spiritual joy and freedom of soul, as under the spirit of adoption; readily, willingly, cheerfully; without sinister and selfish ends and views; as their Lord and Master; taking delight in his person, and pleasure in his service; rejoicing in him, without having any confidence in the flesh: come before his presence with singing; to the throne of his grace with thankfulness for mercies received, as well as to implore others; and into his house, and at his ordinances, beginning public worship wi…

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John Calvin on Psalms 100:1-3

Psalm 100:1-3 A Psalm of Praise 1. Let all the earth make a joyful noise to Jehovah. 2. Serve Jehovah with gladness: come into his presence with joyfulness. 3. Know ye that Jehovah himself is God: he made us, and not we ourselves: we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 1 Make a joyful noise The Psalmist refers only to that part of the service of God which consists in recounting his benefits and giving thanks. And since he invites the whole of the inhabitants of the earth indiscriminately to praise Jehovah, he seems, in the spirit of prophecy, to refer to the period when the Church would be gathered out of different nations. Hence he commands (verse 2) that God should be served w…

The Church Fathers

"Serve the Lord with gladness," for the kingship of our God and Savior has nothing of the harsh tyranny of the devil; rather, his lordship is mild and loving.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 100:1

"O serve the Lord with gladness" (ver. 2): he addresseth you, whoever ye are who endure all things in love, and rejoice in hope. "Serve the Lord," not in the bitterness of murmuring, but in the "gladness of love." "Come before His presence with rejoicing." It is easy to rejoice outwardly: rejoice before the presence of God. Let not the tongue be too joyful: let the conscience be joyful. "Come before His presence with a song."
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 100

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Dictionary and topics

Joy · Serve God with — Serve God with

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 100:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 100:1–end

John Gill on Psalms 100:2

John Calvin on Psalms 100:1-3

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 100:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 100:1–end

John Gill on Psalms 100:2

John Calvin on Psalms 100:1-3

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 100:1-3

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 100:1-2

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 100:2