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Psalms 100:2
2Serve the Lord with gladness and delight; Come before His presence with joyful singing.
Psalms 100:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
- New International Version (NIV)Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.
Context of Psalms 100:2
1Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness and delight; Come before His presence with joyful singing. 3Know and fully recognize with gratitude that the Lord Himself 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. 4Enter His gates with a song of thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, bless and praise His name.
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עִבְד֣וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה בְּשִׂמְחָ֑ה בֹּ֥אוּ לְ֝פָנָ֗יו בִּרְנָנָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 100:2
- Psalms 63:4So will I bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
- Psalms 71:23My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You, And my soul, which You have redeemed.
- Psalms 107:21Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness, And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!
- Deuteronomy 12:12And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your [city] gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.
- Deuteronomy 16:11and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite who is within your [city] gates, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are among you, at the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His Name (Presence).
- Deuteronomy 28:47“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with a heart full of joy and gladness for the abundance of all things [with which He blessed you],
- 1 Kings 8:66On the eighth (fifteenth) day he sent the people away and they blessed the king. Then they went to their tents joyful and in good spirits because of all the goodness which the Lord had shown to David His servant and Israel His people.
- Acts 2:46Day after day they met in the temple [area] continuing with one mind, and breaking bread in various private homes. They were eating their meals together with joy and generous hearts,
- Philippians 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, take pleasure in Him]; again I will say, rejoice!
- Psalms 42:4These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul; How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song], With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.
- Psalms 95:2Let us come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with songs.
- 2 Chronicles 20:27Then they returned to Jerusalem with joy, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, led by Jehoshaphat, for the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies.
- 2 Chronicles 31:2And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests, and the Levites by their divisions, each in accordance with his service, both the priests and Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the camp of the Lord.
Commentaries on Psalms 100:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Serve the Lord with gladness - It is your privilege and duty to be happy in your religious worship. The religion of the true God is intended to remove human misery, and to make mankind happy. He whom the religion of Christ has not made happy does not understand that religion, or does not make a proper use of it.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Serve 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. Come before his presence with singing…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-5This psalm calls all nations to come to Jerusalem to worship the Lord and acknowledge his goodness to Israel.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-51-2. With thankful praise, unite service as the subjects of a king (Psa 2:11, 12).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 100
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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