Psalm 100 - A Joyful Noise of Thanksgiving

Five verses of pure thanksgiving, among the most quoted in the Psalter.

Psalms 100: Make a Joyful Noise Unto the LORD

Psalm 100 opens in Psalms 100:1 with the famous call to 'make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands,' one of the shortest and best-known entries in the Psalms overview.


<A Psalm of Praise.> Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth.

Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song.

Be certain that the Lord is God; it is he who has made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food.

Come into his doors with joy, and into his house with praise; give him honour, blessing his name.

For the Lord is good, and his mercy is never-ending; his faith is unchanging through all generations.

Its instruction to 'enter into his gates with thanksgiving' matches the call to sing 'with grace in your hearts to the Lord' found in <a href="/bible/bbe/colossians/chapter-3/16">Colossians 3:16-17</a>. The psalm's closing note, that God's truth endures to all generations, sets a warm tone before the vow of <a href="/bible/bbe/psalms/chapter-101">Psalms 101</a>.