100:1 A Psalme of Praise. Sing ye loude vnto the Lord, all the earth.
100:2 Serue the Lord with gladnes: come before him with ioyfulnes.
100:3 Knowe ye that euen the Lord is God: hee hath made vs, and not we our selues: we are his people, and the sheepe of his pasture.
100:4 Enter into his gates with prayse, and into his courts with reioycing: prayse him and blesse his Name.
100:5 For the Lord is good: his mercy is euerlasting, and his trueth is from generation to generation.
The verse centers on "mercy", "sheep", "psalme", "praise", "sing", "loude", "vnto", and "lord". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "mercy" and "sheep", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The local GNV text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "mercy" 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 "mercy" and "sheep" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.