Psalm 100

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:2

Serve the Lord with gladness - It is your privilege and duty to be happy in your religious worship. The religion of the true God is intended to remove human misery, and to make mankind happy. He whom the religion of Christ has not made happy does not understand that religion, or does not make a proper use of it. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:3

Know ye that the Lord he is God - Acknowledge in every possible way, both in public and private, that Jehovah, the uncreated self-existent, and eternal Being, is Elohim, the God who is in covenant with man, to instruct, redeem, love, and make him finally happy. It is he that hath made us - He is our Creator and has consequently the only right in and over us. And not we ourselves - אנחנו ולא velo anachnu . I can never think that this is the true reading, though found in the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:4

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving - Publicly worship God; and when ye come to the house of prayer, be thankful that you have such a privilege; and when you enter his courts, praise him for the permission. The word בתודה bethodah , which we render with thanksgiving, is properly with the confession-offering or sacrifice. See on Psalm 100:1-5 ; (note). Bless his name - Bless Jehovah, that he is your Elohim; see Psalm 100:3 . In our liturgic service we say, "Speak good of his... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:5

For the Lord is good - Goodness the perfect, eternal opposition to all badness and evil, is essential to God. Mercy and compassion are modifications of his goodness; and as his nature is eternal, so his mercy, springing from his goodness, must be everlasting. And as Truth is an essential characteristic of an infinitely intelligent and perfect nature; therefore God's truth must endure from generation to generation. Whatsoever he has promised must be fulfilled, through all the successive... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:1

Verse 1 1Make a joyful noise The Psalmist refers only to that part of the service of God which consists in recounting his benefits and giving thanks. And since he invites the whole of the inhabitants of the earth indiscriminately to praise Jehovah, he seems, in the spirit of prophecy, to refer to the period when the Church would be gathered out of different nations. Hence he commands (verse 2) that God should be served with gladness, intimating that his kindness towards his own people is so... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:3

Verse 3 The prophet next makes mention of the great benefits received from God, and, in an especial manner, desires the faithful to meditate upon them. To say God made us is a very generally acknowledged truth; but not to advert to the ingratitude so usual among men, that scarcely one among a hundred seriously acknowledges that he holds his existence from God, although, when hardly put to it, they do not deny that they were created out of nothing; yet every man makes a god of himself, and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:4

Verse 4 4Enter his gates The conclusion of the psalm is almost the same as the beginning of it, excepting that he adopts a mode of speech which relates to the worship of God which obtained under the law; (126) in which, however, he merely reminds us that believers, in rendering thanks to God, do not discharge their duty aright, unless they also continue in the practice of a steady profession of piety. Meanwhile, under the name of the temple, he signifies that God cannot be otherwise worshipped... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 100:1

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord (comp. Psalms 95:1 , Psalms 95:2 , and the comment ad loc .). All ye lands; literally, all the earth. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 100:1

The joy of service. (Sermon for missions.) In this short psalm a note is sounded which echoes, and will never cease to echo, through the world. The trumpet of jubilee is blown, not for Israel, but for all mankind. Brief as this psalm is, it is one of the most wonderful portions of Scripture, glowing with self-evident light of inspiration, not poetic, but prophetic, Divine. This first verse exhibits the three characteristic features of the whole psalm—its catholicity; its joyfulness; ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 100:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 100:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 100:1-5

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