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Psalms 100:2
2Worship the Lord and be happy! Come near to him with songs of joy.
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
1Everyone on earth, shout and praise the Lord! Worship the Lord and be happy! Come near to him with songs of joy. 3Understand that the Lord is God. He made us and we are his people. He takes care of us, like a shepherd with his sheep. 4Thank him as you go through the gates into his temple. Praise him as you stand in his temple yards. Thank him and praise him as he deserves!
Read all of Psalms 100Psalms 100:2 word by word
עִבְד֣וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה בְּשִׂמְחָ֑ה בֹּ֥אוּ לְ֝פָנָ֗יו בִּרְנָנָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 100:2
- Psalms 63:4Yes, I will thank you for as long as I live. I will lift up my hands and I will pray to you.
- Psalms 71:23I will shout aloud with joy, as I praise you with music! I will sing songs to praise you, because you have rescued me.
- Psalms 107:21So they should thank the Lord because of his faithful love. They should thank him for the great things that he does for people.
- Deuteronomy 12:12Go there to enjoy time with the Lord your God. Take with you your children and your servants. Also take with you the Levites who live in your towns. Remember that they have not received any land for themselves, as you have.
- Deuteronomy 16:11You and your family will be happy to worship the Lord your God, at the special place that he chooses. Enjoy time together with your children, your servants and the Levites who live in your town. Also join with the foreign people who live among you, with widows, and children who have no family. Worship God happily together.
- Deuteronomy 28:47The Lord has given you many good things. But you have not agreed to serve the Lord your God with joy.
- 1 Kings 8:66The day after the festival, Solomon sent the people away to their homes. They thanked God for the king and were very happy. They were full of joy because the Lord had done many good things for his servant David and for his people, the Israelites.
- Acts 2:46The whole group of believers met together every day in the yard of the temple. They shared their food and they ate meals together in each other's homes. They were very happy and they were honest with each other.
- Philippians 4:4Always be happy because you belong to the Lord. I will say that again, ‘Be happy!’
- Psalms 42:4When I remember how my life was before, I am very upset and I weep. Once I walked with a big crowd of people to worship God in his temple. I led the people there as we sang happy songs, and we praised God with loud voices.
- Psalms 95:2Let us come near to God and thank him! Let us sing songs to praise him, because we are so happy!
- 2 Chronicles 20:27Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned to Jerusalem. Jehoshaphat marched in front of them. They were very happy because the Lord had helped them. He had caused them to win the fight against their enemies.
- 2 Chronicles 31:2Hezekiah put the priests and the Levites into several groups. Each group had special work to do. Their different jobs were to offer burnt offerings and friendship offerings, and to serve God in other ways. Some of them would thank the Lord and sing songs to praise him at the gates of his temple.
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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