Berean Standard Bible
Psalms 100:2
2Serve the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.
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
1Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth. Serve the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs. 3Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture. 4Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.
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עִבְד֣וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה בְּשִׂמְחָ֑ה בֹּ֥אוּ לְ֝פָנָ֗יו בִּרְנָנָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 100:2
- Psalms 63:4So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.
- Psalms 71:23When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed.
- Psalms 107:21Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
- Deuteronomy 12:12And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
- Deuteronomy 16:11and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
- Deuteronomy 28:47Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
- 1 Kings 8:66On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
- Acts 2:46With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
- Philippians 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- Psalms 42:4These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
- Psalms 95:2Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
- 2 Chronicles 20:27Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat at their head, returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies.
- 2 Chronicles 31:2Hezekiah reestablished the divisions of the priests and Levites—each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites—for the burnt offerings and peace offerings, for ministry, for giving thanks, and for singing praises at the gates of the LORD’s dwelling.
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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