NET | Psalm 100

Psalm 100 [ a ]

A thanksgiving psalm.

100  Shout out praises to the   Lord   , all the earth!
2  Worship [ b ] the   Lord   with joy.
Enter his presence with joyful singing.
3  Acknowledge that the   Lord   is God.
He made us and we belong to him, [ c ]
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4  Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise.
Give him thanks.
Praise his name.
5  For the   Lord   is good.
His loyal love endures, [ d ]
and he is faithful through all generations. [ e ]

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 100:1 sn Psalm 100 . The psalmist celebrates the fact that Israel has a special relationship to God and summons worshipers to praise the Lord for his faithfulness.
  2. Psalm 100:2 tn Or “serve.”
  3. Psalm 100:3 tn The present translation (like most modern translations) follows the Qere (marginal reading), which reads literally, “and to him [are] we.” The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and not we.” The suffixed preposition לוֹ ( lo , “to him”) was confused aurally with the negative particle לֹא ( loʾ , “not”) because the two sound identical.
  4. Psalm 100:5 tn Or “is forever.”
  5. Psalm 100:5 tn Heb “and to a generation and a generation [is] his faithfulness.”