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King James Version

Psalms 100:2

Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Joy;   Praise;   Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Expression, Required;   Expression-Repression;   Joy;   Serve God;   Service;   Work, Religious;   Work-Workers, Religious;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Service;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Joy;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joy;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Church;   Worship of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Doxology ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joy;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Arabic-Jewish Philosophy, General View of;   Happiness;   Joy;   Prayer;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 25;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy.
English Revised Version
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Update Bible Version
Serve Yahweh with gladness: Come before his presence with singing.
New Century Version
Serve the Lord with joy; come before him with singing.
New English Translation
Worship the Lord with joy! Enter his presence with joyful singing!
Webster's Bible Translation
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
World English Bible
Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
Amplified Bible
Serve the LORD with gladness and delight; Come before His presence with joyful singing.
English Standard Version
Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Al erthe, singe ye hertli to God; serue ye the Lord in gladnesse. Entre ye in his siyt; in ful out ioiyng.
Berean Standard Bible
Serve the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.
Contemporary English Version
Be joyful and sing as you come in to worship the Lord !
American Standard Version
Serve Jehovah with gladness: Come before his presence with singing.
Bible in Basic English
Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song.
Complete Jewish Bible
Serve Adonai with gladness. Enter his presence with joyful songs.
Darby Translation
Serve Jehovah with joy: come before his presence with exultation.
Easy-to-Read Version
Be happy as you serve the Lord ! Come before him with happy songs!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Serve the LORD with gladness; come before His presence with singing.
King James Version (1611)
Serue the Lord with gladnes: come before his presence with singing.
New Life Bible
Be glad as you serve the Lord. Come before Him with songs of joy.
New Revised Standard
Worship the Lord with gladness; come into his presence with singing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Serue the Lord with gladnes: come before him with ioyfulnes.
George Lamsa Translation
Serve the LORD with gladness; come before his presence with singing.
Good News Translation
Worship the Lord with joy; come before him with happy songs!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Serve Yahweh with rejoicing, Enter before him, with shouts of triumph.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(92-2) serve ye the Lord with gladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy.
Revised Standard Version
Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
serue God with gladnesse, and come before his face with a ioyfull noyse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with exultation.
Christian Standard Bible®
Serve the Lord with gladness;come before him with joyful songs.
Hebrew Names Version
Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
Lexham English Bible
Serve Yahweh with joy; come into his presence with exultation.
Literal Translation
Worship Jehovah with gladness; come before His face with joyful singing.
Young's Literal Translation
Serve Jehovah with joy, come before him with singing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be ye sure, yt the LORDE he is God:
New American Standard Bible
Serve the LORD with jubilation; Come before Him with rejoicing.
New King James Version
Serve the LORD with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before Him with joyful singing.
Legacy Standard Bible
Serve Yahweh with gladness;Come before Him with joyful songs.

Contextual Overview

1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord , all ye lands. 2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. 3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. 5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Serve: Psalms 63:4, Psalms 63:5, Psalms 71:23, Psalms 107:21, Psalms 107:22, Deuteronomy 12:12, Deuteronomy 16:11, Deuteronomy 16:14, Deuteronomy 28:47, 1 Kings 8:66, Acts 2:46, Acts 2:47, Philippians 4:4

come: Psalms 42:4, Psalms 95:2, 2 Chronicles 20:27, 2 Chronicles 20:28, 2 Chronicles 31:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 26:11 - rejoice Deuteronomy 27:7 - rejoice 1 Chronicles 15:25 - with joy 1 Chronicles 16:28 - ye kindreds 2 Chronicles 5:13 - as one 2 Chronicles 7:10 - glad 2 Chronicles 29:30 - they sang Ezra 3:13 - and the noise Nehemiah 12:27 - gladness Nehemiah 12:42 - sang loud Psalms 27:6 - I will Psalms 68:3 - rejoice Psalms 81:1 - make Zephaniah 3:14 - shout Philippians 3:1 - rejoice Revelation 19:7 - be glad

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Serve the Lord with gladness,.... Not with a slavish fear, under a spirit of bondage, as the Jews under the legal dispensation; not in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the Spirit: with spiritual joy and freedom of soul, as under the spirit of adoption; readily, willingly, cheerfully; without sinister and selfish ends and views; as their Lord and Master; taking delight in his person, and pleasure in his service; rejoicing in him, without having any confidence in the flesh:

come before his presence with singing; to the throne of his grace with thankfulness for mercies received, as well as to implore others; and into his house, and at his ordinances, beginning public worship with singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; see Psalms 95:2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Serve the Lord with gladness - That is, In your worship, and in all your acts of obedience. Let there be joy in this service. Let it not be with the fear of slaves; not as a matter of compulsion and force; not with reluctance, moroseness, or gloom. Let it be a cheerful, happy service; let it be freely rendered, let it be an occasion of joy to the soul. The service of God is a source of the highest joy that man knows.

Come before his presence with singing - As expressive of joy. So the birds sing; so nature rejoices; so should man - intelligent, redeemed, immortal man, be joyful.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 100:2. Serve the Lord with gladness — It is your privilege and duty to be happy in your religious worship. The religion of the true God is intended to remove human misery, and to make mankind happy. He whom the religion of Christ has not made happy does not understand that religion, or does not make a proper use of it.


 
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