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.


Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth:

Serve Yahweh with rejoicing, Enter before him, with shouts of triumph.

Know that, Yahweh, he, is God,—He, made us, and not, we ourselves, His people, and the flock of his pasture.

Enter ye his gates, with thanksgiving, his courts, with praise, Give ye thanks to him, bless ye his Name;

For good is Yahweh, Age-abiding is his lovingkindness, And, unto generation after generation, his faithfulness.

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