Psalms 100:1-3

Psalm 100 1 

A thanksgiving psalm.

100:1 Shout out praises to the Lord, all the earth!

100:2 Worship 2  the Lord with joy!

Enter his presence with joyful singing!

100:3 Acknowledge that the Lord is God!

He made us and we belong to him; 3 

we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Psalms 135:3-4

135:3 Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good!

Sing praises to his name, for it is pleasant! 4 

135:4 Indeed, 5  the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,

Israel to be his special possession. 6 

Deuteronomy 7:6-7

7:6 For you are a people holy 7  to the Lord your God. He 8  has chosen you to be his people, prized 9  above all others on the face of the earth.

The Basis of Israel’s Election

7:7 It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you – for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.

Deuteronomy 12:7

12:7 Both you and your families 10  must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he 11  has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 12:1

The Central Sanctuary

12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 12  has given you to possess. 13 

Deuteronomy 12:22

12:22 Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

Job 35:10

35:10 But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator,

who gives songs in the night, 14 

Isaiah 54:5

54:5 For your husband is the one who made you –

the Lord who commands armies is his name.

He is your protector, 15  the Holy One of Israel. 16 

He is called “God of the entire earth.”

1 sn Psalm 100. The psalmist celebrates the fact that Israel has a special relationship to God and summons worshipers to praise the Lord for his faithfulness.

2 tn Or “serve.”

3 tn The present translation (like most modern translations) follows the Qere (marginal reading), which reads literally, “and to him [are] we.” The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and not we.” The suffixed preposition לו (“to him”) was confused aurally with the negative particle לא because the two sound identical.

4 tn Heb “for [it is] pleasant.” The translation assumes that it is the Lord’s “name” that is pleasant. Another option is to understand the referent of “it” as the act of praising (see Ps 147:1).

5 tn Or “for.”

6 sn His special possession. The language echoes Exod 19:5; Deut 7:6; 14:2; 26:18. See also Mal 3:17.

7 tn That is, “set apart.”

8 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

9 tn Or “treasured” (so NIV, NRSV); NLT “his own special treasure.” The Hebrew term סְגֻלָּה (sÿgullah) describes Israel as God’s choice people, those whom he elected and who are most precious to him (cf. Exod 19:4-6; Deut 14:2; 26:18; 1 Chr 29:3; Ps 135:4; Eccl 2:8 Mal 3:17). See E. Carpenter, NIDOTTE 3:224.

10 tn Heb “and your houses,” referring to entire households. The pronouns “you” and “your” are plural in the Hebrew text.

11 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

12 tn Heb “fathers.”

13 tn Heb “you must be careful to obey in the land the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days which you live in the land.” This adverbial statement modifies “to obey,” not “to possess,” so the order in the translation has been rearranged to make this clear.

14 tn There have been several attempts to emend the line, none of which are particularly helpful or interesting. H. H. Rowley (Job [NCBC], 225) says, “It is a pity to rob Elihu of a poetic line when he creates one.”

15 tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

16 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.