Psalms 100:2 (LSB)

Passage

Serve Yahweh with gladness; Come before Him with joyful songs.

Nearby Context

Psalms 100:1 A Psalm of Thanksgiving. Make a loud shout to Yahweh, all the earth.

Psalms 100:2 Serve Yahweh with gladness; Come before Him with joyful songs.

Psalms 100:3 Know that Yahweh, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Psalms 100:4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "serve", "yahweh", "gladness", "come", "before", "joyful", and "songs". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "serve" and "yahweh", 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 Make a loud..." into verse 3's "Know that Yahweh He is God It...", so "serve" and "yahweh" 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 "yahweh" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.