A psalm of thanksgiving
100:Title “Thanksgiving” – or “praise”. The Hebrew word is usually translated “thanksgiving” in the KJV, as in v 4.⚜
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📚Make a joyful sound to the LORD,all you lands!
100:1 This is the last in this series of Psalms concerning the reign of the LORD (Jehovah) on the earth. It looks forward to the time when all the peoples of the earth (“all you lands”), and not just Israel, become His people and His sheep. Compare Ex 19:5; Deut 4:20; 7:6; Ps 73:1; 79:13; 95:7. This is one of the reasons the writer gives for the joyful thanksgiving and praise which are the theme of this psalm. It is an interesting fact that this is the only Psalm which has the title “of thanksgiving”, though, of course, many of them contain much thanksgiving to God.⚜
2 📚Serve the LORD with gladness.
Come before his presence
with singing.
3 📚Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who has
made us,
and not we ourselves.
We are his people and
the sheep of his pasture.
100:3 The writer is still addressing the whole earth. Jehovah is not a small god of a little nation. He is the one true God, the Creator of all. He wants all men to know this, for there can be no true service to God, no real joy, without this knowledge. But when all the earth does know this, when all peoples become His people and His sheep, what joy and praise will fill the whole wide earth! (Ps 98:3; Isa 11:9; 45:6; Hab 2:14).⚜
4 📚Enter into his gates
with thanksgiving 📖,
and into his courts
with praise.
Be thankful to him and
praise his name.
5 📚For the LORD is good.
His mercy is everlasting,
and his truth continues
to all generations.
100:5 Further great reasons for joy and thanksgiving. The only true God is good, gracious, and faithful, and will remain unchangeably so forever.⚜