An exhortation to serve God joyfully as our creator and preserver, and to praise him for his goodness, mercy, and truth.
0A Psalm of 1praise.
1Or, thanksgiving. Ps. 145, title.
1MAKE a ajoyful noise unto the LORD, 2all ye lands.
2Heb. all the earth.
a Ps. 47.1; 66.1,4; 95.1; 117.1. Is. 24.15,16; 42.10-12. De. 32.43. Ro. 15.10. Phi. 4.4.
2Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3bKnow ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath cmade us, 3and not we ourselves; dwe are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
3Or, and his we are.
b 1Ch. 28.9. Ps. 46.10. Jn. 1.14. 1Jn. 5.20. c Ps. 119.73; 139.13-16; 149.2. Ep. 2.10. d Is. 63.19. Eze. 34.11,30,31. Ps. 95.6,7. Ex. 19.5,6. 1Pe. 2.9,25. Jn. 10.1-29. 2Ch. 30.8.
4eEnter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
e Ps. 65.1; 66.13; 116.14,17-19; 95.2; 105.1,5; 106.1,47; 107.1,8,15,21,31; 135; 136. Is. 35.10.
5For the LORD is good; fhis mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth 4to all generations.
4Heb. to generation and generation. Ps. 89.1.
f Ps. 103.17; 136.1-26; 85.10; 119.89; 146.6-10. De. 32.4.