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.


The titil of the hundrid salm. `The salm of Dauid. Lord, Y schal synge to thee; merci and doom.

I schal synge, and Y schal vndurstonde in a weie with out wem; whanne thou schalt come to me. I yede perfitli in the innocence of myn herte; in the myddil of myn hous.

I settide not forth bifore myn iyen an vniust thing; Y hatide hem that maden trespassyngis.

A schrewide herte cleuede not to me; Y knewe not a wickid man bowynge awei fro me.

I pursuede hym; that bacbitide priueli his neiybore. With the proude iye and an herte vnable to be fillid; Y eet not with this.

Myn iyen weren to the feithful men of erthe, that thei sitte with me; he that yede in a weie with out wem, mynystride to me.

He that doith pride, schal not dwelle in the myddil of myn hous; he that spekith wickid thingis, seruede not in the siyt of myn iyen.

In the morutid Y killide alle the synners of erthe; that Y schulde leese fro the citee of the Lord alle men worchynge wickidnesse.

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