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Psalms 100

World English Bible · public domain · whole chapter

Psalms 99 Psalms 101

¹Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!

²Serve Yahweh with gladness.

³Know that Yahweh, he is God.

⁴Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,

⁵For Yahweh is good.

¹Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!

²Serve Yahweh with gladness.

³Know that Yahweh, he is God.

⁴Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,

⁵For Yahweh is good.

¹Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!

²Serve Yahweh with gladness.

³Know that Yahweh, he is God.

⁴Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,

⁵For Yahweh is good.

In context

Psalms 100 is read as a whole chapter — not a single verse pulled free of what surrounds it.

Immediately before

⁵Exalt Yahweh our God.

⁶Moses and Aaron were among his priests,

⁷He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud.

⁸You answered them, Yahweh our God.

⁹Exalt Yahweh, our God.

Immediately after

¹I will sing of loving kindness and justice.

²I will be careful to live a blameless life.

³I will set no vile thing before my eyes.

⁴A perverse heart will be far from me.

⁵I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor.

How this book begins

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

⁴The wicked are not so,

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,