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Psalms 100:2
2Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.
Psalms 100:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy.
Context of Psalms 100:2
1Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. 3Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise 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 63:4I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.
- Psalms 71:23My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you— I whom you have delivered.
- Psalms 107:21Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind.
- Deuteronomy 12:12And there rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns who have no allotment or inheritance of their own.
- Deuteronomy 16:11And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.
- Deuteronomy 28:47Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,
- 1 Kings 8:66On the following day he sent the people away. They blessed the king and then went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.
- Acts 2:46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,
- Philippians 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- Psalms 42:4These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
- Psalms 95:2Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
- 2 Chronicles 20:27Then, led by Jehoshaphat, all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the Lord had given them cause to rejoice over their enemies.
- 2 Chronicles 31:2Hezekiah assigned the priests and Levites to divisions—each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites—to offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, to minister, to give thanks and to sing 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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