Chapter Text
100:1 Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all ye lands.
100:2 Serve Jehovah with gladness: Come before his presence with singing.
100:3 Know ye that Jehovah, he is God: It is he that hath made us, and we are his; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, And into his courts with praise: Give thanks unto him, and bless his name.
100:5 For Jehovah is good; his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever, And his faithfulness unto all generations. Psalm 101 A Psalm of David.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "faith", "sheep", "make", "joyful", "noise", "jehovah", "lands", and "serve". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "sheep", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The local ASV text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "faith" and "sheep" carries the first interpretive weight. In Psalms context, the local focus is worship, trust, the LORD's kingship, and covenant mercy.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "faith" and "sheep" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.