Psalms 100 (WEB)

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Chapter Text

100:1 Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!

100:2 Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

100:3 Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

100:5 For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "faith", "sheep", "shout", "yahweh", "lands", "serve", "gladness", and "come". 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 WEB 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.