Psalms 100:1

Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Psalms 100:1.-Invitation to praise (); ground of it: serve Yahweh, because He hath made us, and adopted us as His people by redemption (Psalms 100:2). Bless Him for His mercy and truth last forever (Psalms 100:4). Title, A PSALM OF PRAISE - rather (le-thodah), 'of thanksgiving,' to accord with the same Hebrew noun and verb, , "thanksgiving ... be thankful" - literally, confession; for thanksgiving, in God's case, is simply confessing His infinite excellencies. The praise...

1_Make a joyful noise _The Psalmist refers only to that part of the service of God which consists in recounting his benefits and giving thanks. And since he invites the whole of the inhabitants of the earth indiscriminately to praise Jehovah, he seems, in the spirit of prophecy, to refer to the period when the Church would be gathered out of different nations. Hence he commands (verse 2) that God should _be served with gladness, _intimating that his kindness towards his own people is so great as to furnish them with abundant ground for rejoicing. This is better expressed in the third verse, in which he first reprehends the presumption of those men who had wickedly revolted from the true God, both in fashioning for themselves gods many, and in devising various forms of worshipping them. And as a multitude of gods destroys and suppresses the true knowledge of one God only, and tarnishes hi...

PSALM C _All nations are exhorted to praise the Lord_, 1, 2; _to acknowledge him to be the Sovereign God and their Creator_ _and that they are his people and the flock of his pasture_, 3; _to worship him publicly, and be grateful for his mercies_, 4. _The reasons on which this is founded; his own goodness, his_ _everlasting mercy, and his ever-during truth_, 5. NOTES ON PSALM C This Psalm is entitled in the Hebrew מזמור לתודה _mizmor_ _lethodah_, not "A Psalm of Praise," as we have it, but "A Psalm for the confession, or _for the confession-offering_," very properly

MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE UNTO THE LORD - See the notes at Psalms 95:1. ALL YE LANDS - Margin, as in Hebrew, “all the earth.” The margin expresses the sense. The idea in the psalm is, that praise did not pertain to one nation only; that it was not appropriate for one people merely; that it should not be confined to the Hebrew people, but that there was a proper ground of praise for “all;” there was that in which all nations, of all languages and conditions, could unite. The ground of that was the fact that they had one Creator, Psalms 100:3. The psalm is based on the unity of the human race; on the fact that there is one God and Father of all, and one great family on earth....

EXPOSITION THE hundredth psalm has for its title, "A Psalm of praise," or "of thanksgiving," and to this description it well answers. There is not a single mournful note in the composition. God is praised from the beginning to the end, and all the earth is called upon to join in blessing and thanking him. It has been suggested that it was probably written to be chanted by a festive procession as it approached and entered the temple (see Psalms 100:4). The whole runs on without any break or division. PSALMS 100:1 MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE UNTO THE LORD (comp. Psalms 95:1,...

MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE UNTO THE LORD, ALL YE LANDS. Or, "all the earth" c; that is, as the Targum, all the inhabitants of the earth, who are called upon to shout unto him as their King; as the angels did at his birth, the disciples when he made his public entrance into Jerusalem, the apostles at his ascension to heaven, the saints when the marriage of him, the Lamb, will be come, and both men and angels when he shall descend from heaven to judge the world; and such a joyful noise or shout should be made unto him as to a triumphant conqueror, who has got the victory over sin, Satan, death, and the grave, and every enemy of his and his people, and made them more than conquerors through himself; see Psalms 95:1. c כל הארץ "omnis terra", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, c....

May the Spirit of God, by whose inspiration David penned these Psalms, bless them to us as we read them! This is entitled «a Psalm of Praise.» Note here that this is the only Psalm which bears that title; there are others which have titles very much like it, but this one is singled out from all the rest to be, in a very special sense, «a Psalm of Praise.» Martin Luther was very fond of it, and it has even been said that he composed the tune which are have just sung, and which is commonly called «the Old Hundredth»; though others attribute it to a German named Franc. Psalms 100:1. _Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands._ Do you notice the missionary spirit here? The Jews looked upon God as the God of Israel, and they had but very faint desires for the conversion of other nations; but the Holy Ghost speaks more by David than David himself may have known: Make

Psalms 100 Nothing but Praise It is Israel's voice in praise which we hear in this brief Psalm, which so fittingly concludes this series of great millennial Psalms. They exhort that all the earth should make a joyful noise unto the Lord, to serve Him and come before Him with singing. The third verse tells us that they are the speakers. All are to enter His gates with thanksgiving and come into His courts with praise. How often is this Psalm used in a spiritualized way, making the gates and the courts some church building. But we worship in spirit and in truth and not in an earthly house. The gates and courts have reference to that future temple, which will be a house of prayer for all nations....

C. A PROCESSIONAL HYMN (see Psalms 100:4). The Ps. invites the Israelites to be joyful, declares Yahweh is the only God and the Maker of all, and that He is specially the God of Israel. PSALMS 100:2. SERVE: offer sacrifice to (see Isaiah 19:21; Isaiah 19:23). Psalms 100:3. we are his: this suits the context better, but He hath made us, _i.e._ made us what we are, viz. the people of redemption, is also a possible reading....

TITLE.. PSALM. Hebrew. _mizmor._ App-65. PRAISE. thanksgiving. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. YE LANDS. Hebrew the land; Israel in the land....