Chapter Text
100:1 {A Psalm of thanksgiving.} Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth!
100:2 Serve Jehovah with joy: come before his presence with exultation.
100:3 Know that Jehovah is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; [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, bless his name:
100:5 For Jehovah is good; his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever; and his faithfulness from generation to generation.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "faith", "sheep", "psalm", "thanksgiving", "shout", "aloud", "jehovah", and "earth". 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 DBY 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.