Henry Ainsworth on Psalms 100:1-5

PSAL. C.

A Psalme for confession.

SHout ye triumphantly to Iehovah, all the earth. Serve ye Iehovah with gladnesse, come before him with singing joy. Know yee that Iehovah he is God, hee made us, and His we art. not we, his people, and sheepe of his pasture. Enter ye his gates with confession, his courts with praise; confesse ye to him, blesse ye his name. For Iehovah is good, his mercy is for ever, and his faith unto generation and generation.

Annotations. FOr confession] for the publike praise of God, with thanks for his mercies. all the earth] that is, as the Chaldee translateth, all inhabitants of the earth. Vers. 2. singing] or shrilling, shouting mirth. Vers. 3. made us] this word is used both for our first creation in nature, Gen. 1. 26. and for the making of us high and excellent with graces and blessings, as 1 Sam. 12. 6. Deut. 32. 6. Esa. 43. 7. and 29. 23. Ephes. 2. 10. and not we] or, and his we are: as the Hebrew in the margine readeth it. Both senses are good: and the Chaldee keepeth this latter, his we are. sheepe] or flocke which hee seedeth. See Ezek. 34. 30. 31. Psal. 95. 7. V. 4. confession] the sacrifice of thankes was thus named, 2 Chron. 29. 31. Ier. 17. 26. Vers. 5. faith] or, faithfulnesse: truth, in performing his promises.