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 Psalme of Praise. Sing ye loude vnto the Lord, all the earth.

Serue the Lord with gladnes: come before him with ioyfulnes.

Knowe ye that euen the Lord is God: hee hath made vs, and not we our selues: we are his people, and the sheepe of his pasture.

Enter into his gates with prayse, and into his courts with reioycing: prayse him and blesse his Name.

For the Lord is good: his mercy is euerlasting, and his trueth is from generation to generation.

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/geneva1599/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/geneva1599/psalms/chapter-101">Psalms 101</a>.