English Standard Version
Psalms 100:2
2Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy.
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 singing! 3Know that the Lord, he 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; bless his name!
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 63:4So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
- Psalms 71:23My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.
- Psalms 107:21Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!
- Deuteronomy 12:12And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, 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, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.
- Deuteronomy 28:47Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,
- 1 Kings 8:66On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.
- Acts 2:46And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,
- Philippians 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.
- Psalms 42:4These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.
- Psalms 95:2Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
- 2 Chronicles 20:27Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies.
- 2 Chronicles 31:2And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the Lord and to give thanks and praise.
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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