Psalms 100:2 (DBY)

Passage

Serve Jehovah with joy: come before his presence with exultation.

Nearby Context

Psalms 100:1 {A Psalm of thanksgiving.} Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth!

Psalms 100:2 Serve Jehovah with joy: come before his presence with exultation.

Psalms 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.

Psalms 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving [and] into his courts with praise; give thanks unto him, bless his name:

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "serve", "jehovah", "come", "before", "presence", and "exultation". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "serve" and "jehovah", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 1's "A Psalm of thanksgiving Shout aloud unto..." into verse 3's "Know that Jehovah is God it is...", so "serve" and "jehovah" belong inside that flow. 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 "serve" and "jehovah" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.