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Psalm 100 is the 100th psalm in the
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in the
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. In English, it is translated as "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands" in the
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(KJV), and as "O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands" in the
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(BCP). Its Hebrew name is he, lit=Mizmor l'Todah, text=מִזְמוֹר לְתוֹדָה, label=none and it is subtitled a "Psalm of gratitude confession". In the slightly different numbering system in the Greek
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version of the Bible, and in the Latin
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, this psalm is Psalm 99. In the Vulgate, it begins Jubilate Deo (alternatively: "Iubilate Domino"), or Jubilate, which also became the title of the BCP version. People who have translated the psalm range from
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, and translations have ranged from Parr's elaborate English that doubled many words, through metrical hymn forms, to attempts to render the meaning of the Hebrew as idiomatically as possible in a modern language (of the time). The psalm, being a hymn psalm, has been paraphrased in many hymns, such as "
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" in English, and " Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt" in German. The psalm forms a regular part of
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and other Protestant liturgies, and has been set to music many times over centuries. Many composers set it in Latin, and many others in English, because the Jubilate is part of the daily Anglican Morning Prayer, and also in ''Te Deum and Jubilate'' compositions, such as Handel's ''
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''. It has been set in German by many composers, including Mendelssohn's '' Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt'', and Reger's '' Der 100. Psalm''. In Hebrew, it constitutes the bulk of the first movement of Bernstein's ''
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''.


Hebrew

The Hebrew text of the psalm comprises 5 verses. Unusually for a Biblical poem, it solely comprises
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s, verses 1 and 2 (a
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and a
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respectively) combining into a tricolon, and the remaining verses all being tricolons. (One scholar,
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, dissents and takes verse 4 to be two bicolons.) It is usually divided into two
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s, verses 1–3 and verses 4–5. # he, label=none, text= מזמור לתודה הריעו ליהוה כל הארץ # he, label=none, text= עבדו את יהוה בשמחה באו לפניו ברננה # he, label=none, text= דעו כי יהוה הוא אלהים הוא עשנו ולא לואנחנו עמו וצאן מרעיתו # he, label=none, text= באו שעריו בתודה חצרתיו בתהלה הודו לו ברכו שמו # he, label=none, text= כי טוב יהוה לעולם חסדו ועד דר ודר אמונתו The first two words are the title of the psalm, naming it a song for a specific thanksgiving sacrifice in
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made in order to fulfil a vow. This is recorded in
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in the
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, stating it to be sung "with harps and cymbals and music on every corner and every large boulder in Jerusalem". Mediaeval commentator
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, who made the correspondence between Shevu'ot's "song of ''todah''" and Psalm 100, stated that the psalm is to be said "upon the sacrifices of the ''todah''", which was expanded upon by
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in the 18th century stating that it is to be recited "by the one bringing a ''
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todah'' for a miracle that happened to him". The bracketed part of verse 3 is an instance of
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in the
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. In the body of the text is the Hebrew word he, text=לא, label=none, translit=lo' meaning "not" whereas the marginalia has the substitute he, text=לו, label=none, translit=lô meaning "to him". One Kabbalistic explanation for the qere reading he, label=none, text=ולו of the literal ketiv he, label=none, text=ולא propounded by
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is that the he, label=none, א (
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) represents God, and the ketiv is supposed to read "we are The Aleph's", in other words (given that God has already been mentioned, by two names, earlier in the verse) "we are his" per the qere. A less established thesis, first propounded in the 1960s (in ), is that the Ketiv text is an asseverative particle, connected to the following phrase and thus as a whole translated as "and ''indeed'' we are his people". Whilst this avoids the problem of the Qere reading making the verse say the same thing twice, it has not gained wide scholarly acceptance. Professor David M. Howard Jr rejects it on constructionist grounds, as the syllabic imbalance in the colon lengths that it introduces outweighs for him what little variance in meaning it has from the Qere reading. Professor John Goldingay rejects it as "unlikely". Although only Psalm 90 is directly attributed to
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, it is conventional Jewish doctrine that Moses composed all of psalms 90 to 100, and this view is maintained by Rashi.


In Jewish liturgy

The psalm occurs in several
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but it is unknown exactly how or when this specific thanksgiving became a part of the daily prayer, being recited as part of the Songs of thanksgiving ('' Pesukei dezimra'').B. Posen: Die Schabbos-Vorschriften. Hilchos Schabbos. Morascha, Basel 2005, OCLC 694996857, p.55:„An Schabbat und Feiertagen, an Erew Jom Kippur und Pesach, sowie an Chol Hamo'ed Pessach wird der Psalm nicht gesprochen.“ Psalm 100 is traditionally omitted, as mentioned by Rashi's student Simcha ben Samuel and discussed in detail by 14th century writer David ben Joseph ben David Abduraham, on
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and
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because the Thanksgiving offering was not offered on these days in the Temple. Only communal offerings were brought on these days. It is also omitted by Ashkenazim on the day before
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and during Chol HaMoed Pesach because the Thanksgiving offering is composed of a loaf of bread, which is
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that may not be consumed during Pesach, and the day before
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because no food is consumed at all on Yom Kippur; however, most Sephardic communities do recite it on these three occasions (but not on Shabbat of Festivals). However,
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did the opposite, omitting this psalm from the daily liturgy but including it in the morning prayer for Shabbat, and the is the practice in the
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today. Additionally, most Sephardic communities recite this Psalm as part of
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. Verse 2, "''Ivdu es-Hashem b'simcha''" (Serve the Lord with joy) is a popular inspirational song in Judaism.


Translations


Latin

The psalm is number 99 in the Vulgate: # Jubilate Deo omnis terra : servite Domino in lætitia. # Introite in conspectu ejus : in exsultatione. # Scitote quoniam Dominus ipse est Deus : ipse fecit nos, et non ipsi nos. # Populus ejus, et oves pascuæ ejus, introite portas ejus in confessione : atria ejus in hymnis, confitemini illi. # Laudate nomen ejus, quoniam suavis est Dominus; in æternum misericordia ejus : et usque in generationem et generationem veritas ejus. Jerome's ''Hebraica veritas'' reads "et ipsius sumus" in verse 3. A different Latin form of the psalm is to be found in
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's '' Preces Private'' of 1564, where it is numbered psalm 100. Contrast its first two verses: # Jubilate in honorem Domini, quotquot in terra versamini. # Colite Dominum com laetitia, venite in conspectum ipsius cum exultatione. Traditionally in the Roman Catholic Church, this psalm was chanted in
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s during the celebration of
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on Fridays, according to the schema of St. Benedict of Nursia. As one of the most important psalms, Psalm 100 (99) was similarly sung for the solemn office of Lauds on
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. In the 1970 reform of the Liturgy of the Hours, Psalm 100 is one of four
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psalms which can introduce the daily office hours. It is recited at Lauds on the Fridays of the first and third weeks of the four week cycle of liturgical prayers. Psalm 100 is also present among the readings of the office of the
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: found on January 5 after the
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of
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, and on the fourth Sunday of
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. It also appears six times in
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: Thursday of the 8th week, the Friday of the 22nd week, Tuesday and Friday of the 24th week, the Monday of the 29th week, and on Thursday of the 34th week of Ordinary Time. Because of its text and its subject, this psalm is still one of the most important liturgical chants, during the celebration of the
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every 25 years in Rome. It is sung when the bishop opened the Door of Mercy. The Old English text in the
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is not an idiomatic translation but a word for word substitution, an
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, of the Vulgate Latin: # Wynsumiað gode, all eorðe: ðiowiaƌ Dryhtne in blisse; # ingað in gesihðe his: in wynsumnisse.


King James Version

In the
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, Psalm 100 is superscripted ''An exhortation to praise God cheerfully for his greatness and for his power''. # A Psalm of Praise. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. # Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. # 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. # Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. # For the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting: and his truth endureth to all generations. The Qere "and his we are" is recorded as marginalia; which was to become the translation used in the main body text by the time of the Revised Version. Other marginalia provide "all the earth" and "to generation and generation" from the Hebrew for verses 1 and 5.


Geddes

The 1807 translation by Alexander Geddes for Catholics demonstrates some of the alternative choices set out in the translation notes section below: # A EUCHARISTIC PSALM.
CELEBRATE Jehovah, all ye lands ! # with joyfulness worship Jehovah !
Come into his presence with exultation. # Know that Jehovah is the only God :
It was he who made us, and his we are;
his own people, and the flock of his pasture. # With thanksgiving enter into his gates;
into his courts with songs of praise.
To him be thankful, and bless his name : # For good is Jehovah ! everlasting his bounty !
and his veracity from generation to generation.


Driver and BCP

Samuel Rolles Driver Samuel Rolles Driver (2 October 1846 – 26 February 1914) was an English divine and Hebrew scholar. He devoted his life to the study, both textual and critical, of the Old Testament. He was the father of Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver, also a disti ...
's ''Parallel Psalter'' has the Prayer Book translation of psalm 100 on a verso page. It is identical to the Jubilate Deo, sans Gloria, from the
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, intentionally retaining the use of "O" for the vocative amongst other things: # O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands : serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song. # Be ye sure 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. # O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise : be thankful unto him, and speak good of his Name. # For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting : and his truth endureth from generation to generation. The beginning of verse 1 here is the same as Psalm 66 verse 1 and Psalm 98 verse 4. His own 1898 translation is on a facing recto page. It exhibits several of the differences in modern translations that are explained in the below translation notes section. # Shout unto Jehovah, all the earth. # Serve Jehovah with gladness;
come before his presence with a ringing cry. # Know ye that Jehovah he is God :
it is he that hath made us, and we are his;
(we are) his people, and the flock of his pasture. # O enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
(and) into his courts with praise :
give thanks unto him, bless his name. # For Jehovah is good, his kindness (endureth) for ever,
and his faithfulness unto all generations. For "pasture" in verse 3 he gives "shepherding" as an alternative, and for "thanksgiving" in verse 4 "a thank-offering". Psalm 100 was one of the fixed psalms in the older
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for office of lauds on Sundays, and the Prayer Book translation given by Driver (with an added Gloria) is a part of the order of morning prayer in the Book of Common Prayer under the title Jubilate Deo, or just Jubilate. It was added to the BCP litany in 1552, as a substitute for the
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to be used only on days when it so happened that the second Lesson prescribed for the day happened to already include that part of the
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.


Kethe

William Kethe's translation is in
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, and formed part of a collection of psalms translated into metrical form in English, the 1562 expanded 150-psalm edition of
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's and John Hopkins's 1549
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( Day's Psalter). First appearing in ''Fourscore and Seven Psalms of David'' (the so-called
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) the year before, it divides the verses in the same way as the Book of Common Prayer: # All people that on earth do dwell, sing to the Lord with cheerful voice: him serve with fear, his praise forth tell, come ye before him and rejoice! # The Lord, ye know, is God indeed, without our aid he did us make; we are his flock he doth us feed, and for his sheep he doth us take. # O enter then his gates with praise, approach with joy his courts unto; praise, laud, and bless his Name always, for it is seemly so to do. # For why? the Lord our God is good, his mercy is for ever sure; his truth at all times firmly stood, and shall from age to age endure. Of all of the psalms in the Sternhold and Hopkins psalter, Kethe's translation is the most famous and lasting, it being a popular hymn usually set to the tune "
Old 100th "Old 100th" or "Old Hundredth" (also known as "Old Hundred") is a hymn tune in long metre, from the second edition of the Genevan Psalter. It is one of the best known melodies in many occidental Christian musical traditions. The tune is usuall ...
". Hannibal Hamlin, a professor of English, observes that it suffers from common ailments of strophic song settings, that the first verse fits a tune better than subsequent verses and that the phrasing has a tendency towards the convoluted. Hamlin holds up "him serve with fear", with an unusual object-verb-object ordering for the imperative in English (which would in colloquial English more usually be "serve him with fear"), followed by a similarly unusual word order in "his praise forth tell", as examples of the latter. The former is exemplified by the drawn-out end of the second line of the tune "Old 100th" fitting "cheerful voice" better than it does "courts unto" and "ever sure". Biblical scholar J. Clinton McCann Jr characterises this translation of the psalm as "the banner hymn of the Reformed tradition", and observes that the psalm would have provided an excellent basis, better than that of the
Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis (from Greek ; Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית ''Bəreʾšīt'', "In hebeginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, ( "In the beginning") ...
, for the
Westminster Confession of Faith The Westminster Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith. Drawn up by the 1646 Westminster Assembly as part of the Westminster Standards to be a confession of the Church of England, it became and remains the " subordinate standard" ...
's declaration of the primary purpose of humans being to glorify God.


Luther

Martin Luther Martin Luther (; ; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, and professor, and Order of Saint Augustine, Augustinian friar. He is the seminal figure of the Reformation, Protestant Refo ...
translated the psalm into German, including the Hebrew title in the first verse (like Geddes) with the psalm under the title ''Der 100. Psalm'': # Ein Dankpsalm. Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt. # Dienet dem Herrn mit Freuden; kommt vor sein Angesicht mit Frohlocken. # Erkennet, daß der Herr Gott ist. Er hat uns gemacht, und nicht wir selbst zu seinem Volk, und zu Schafen seiner Weide. # Gehet zu seinen Toren ein mit Danken, zu seinen Vorhöfen mit Loben; danket ihm, lobet seinen Namen. # Denn der Herr ist freundlich, und seine Gnade währet ewig, und seine Wahrheit für und für.


Watts/Wesley

Hymnals sometimes attribute "Before Jehovah's awful throne", another translation of the psalm in hymn form common in Methodism, to
Isaac Watts Isaac Watts (17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748) was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns. His works include "When I Survey the ...
, but this is only partly true. Watts translated Psalm 100 twice, to form a hymn comprising two parts that was first published in ''Psalms of David Imitated'', the first subtitled "a plain translation", whose first verse was: # Ye nations of the Earth rejoice, Before the Lord your sovereign King; Serve him with cheerful heart and voice; With all your tongues his glory sing. and the second subtitled "a paraphrase", whose first two verses (as later re-published) were: # Sing to the Lord with joyful voice; Let ev'ry land his name adore; The British isles shall send the noise Across the ocean to the shore. # Nations attend before his throne, With solemn fear and sacred joy: Know that the Lord is God alone; He can create, and he destroy. The second verse of the paraphrase was a rewrite, Watts' original in the 1706 ''Horae Lyricae'' reading: #
  • With gladness bow before his throne, And let his presence raise your joys, Know that the Lord is God alone, And form'd our Souls, and fram'd our voice.
  • No version of Watts contained the line about the "awful throne". That was a revision by
    John Wesley John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English people, English cleric, Christian theology, theologian, and Evangelism, evangelist who was a leader of a Christian revival, revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The soci ...
    for his 1737 ''Collection of Psalms and Hymns'', who discarded Watts' first verse of part 2 entirely, and rewrote its now-first verse (that verse's second rewrite) to include the line by which it is known: # Before Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations, bow with sacred joy; Know that the Lord is God alone; He can create, and he destroy. The word "awful" is used here in its older, 18th century, meaning, and some modern reprints of Watts/Wesley spell it "awe-ful" to make this clear. Other hymnals revised it further, instead; in the ''Lutheran book of worship'' it is "Before Jehovah's awesome throne", and in the 1982 Episcopal ''Hymnal'' it is "Before the Lord's eternal throne".


    Others

    There are other translations of the psalm in hymn form and otherwise, including "Before the Lord Jehovah's Throne" (number 306 in the Presbyterian '' The Worshipbook''), "Sing, All Creation" (set to the tune of Rouen's "
    Iste Confessor Iste confessor is a Latin hymn used in the Divine Office at Lauds and Vespers on feasts of confessors. It exists in two forms. ''Iste confessor Domini sacratus'' is the original 8th Century hymn and ''Iste confessor Domini colentes'' is a 1632 e ...
    " in ''Morning Praise and Evensong''), the metrical "O be joyful in the Lord, Sing before him, all the earth" (number 482 in ''The Worshipbook''), and Joseph Gelineau's "Cry Out with Joy to the Lord" in his ''Gradual''.
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    's ''
    Psalms or Prayers ''Psalms or Prayers'' was the first book published by Katherine Parr, queen consort of England. It is an English translation of the Latin ''Psalms'', published by John Fisher around 1525. ''Psalms or Prayers'' was published anonymously in 1544 b ...
    '' contains an elaborate translation into English, from the Elizabethan Latin translation, that doubles most of the imperative verbs and some of the adjectives and nouns. "Jubilate" becomes, for example "Rejoice and sing"; and "colite" becomes "worship and serve".


    Translation notes

    As aforementioned, verse 3 contains an instance of
    Qere and Ketiv Qere and Ketiv, from the Aramaic ''qere'' or ''q're'', ("hat isread") and ''ketiv'', or ''ketib'', ''kethib'', ''kethibh'', ''kethiv'', ("hat iswritten"), also known as "q're uchsiv" or "q're uchtiv," refers to a system for marking differences b ...
    in the
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    . The KJV translation "and not we ourselves" is based upon the ketiv, and agrees with the Septuagint and Vulgate translations; the
    New American Standard Bible The New American Standard Bible (NASB) is an English translation of the Bible. Published by the Lockman Foundation, the complete NASB was released in 1971. The NASB relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew and Gre ...
    and the
    Darby Bible The Darby Bible (DBY, formal title ''The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby'') refers to the Bible as translated from Hebrew and Greek by John Nelson Darby. History and principles Darby published a ...
    also agreeing. More modern translations such as those of the
    New International Version The New International Version (NIV) is an English translation of the Bible first published in 1978 by Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society). The ''NIV'' was created as a modern translation, by Bible scholars using the earliest an ...
    and the
    English Standard Version The English Standard Version (ESV) is an English translation of the Bible. Published in 2001 by Crossway, the ESV was "created by a team of more than 100 leading evangelical scholars and pastors." The ESV relies on recently published critic ...
    are based upon the qere, and read "and we are his". Geddes opined in a footnote to his translation that the KJV/Septuagint translation is "totally inadmissable".
    Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette (12 January 1780 – 16 June 1849) was a German theology, theologian and Biblical Studies, biblical scholar. Life and education Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette was born 12 January 1780 in Ulla (now part of the mu ...
    , in his German translation of the Psalm, likewise gave the translation "und sein sind wir", noting that the ketiv translation "und nicht wir" (as given by Luther) is "ganz unschicklich". The historicist argument in support of following the qere over the ketiv is that the ketiv simply makes no sense in context. There was simply no contemporary Biblical world view in which people believed that they created themselves. It is bolstered by a constructionist argument that the structure of the psalm is better taking the qere reading, as in that way each part of the second half of the verse contains a pronoun or possessive suffix referencing the names of God in the first half.
    Robert Lowth Robert Lowth ( ; 27 November 1710 – 3 November 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, Oxford Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar. Life Lowth was born in Hampshire, England, G ...
    , writing in James Merrick's 1768 ''Annotations on the Psalms'', said that "I am persuaded that the Masoretical correction ..is right: the construction and parallelism both favour it." The Old English metrical form of Psalm 100, associated with the
    Paris Psalter The Paris Psalter (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. gr. 139) is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript, 38 x 26.5 cm in size, containing 449 folios and 14 full-page miniatures. The Paris Psalter is considered a key monument of the so-called Mace ...
    , similarly gives "we his syndon" ("we belong to him"). Scholarship on this rests on the 19th century Ph.D. thesis of Helen Bartlett. Bartlett, like the parallel Old-English and Latin psalters of earlier in the 19th century (e.g. ), only compares the Old English translation with the Vulgate Latin (also using the Vulgate numbering), not with the Latin of Jerome, and ascribes "we his syndon" to a mistranslation of the Vulgate "et non ipsi nos" that overlooks "non" and misconstrues a dative, rather than to Jerome's "et ipsius sumus". Lost in the English translation is that all of the imperative verbs in the Hebrew are in the plural. The phrase "make a joyful noise" is significantly longer than the Hebrew, which is just one word (as is the Latin); and translators aiming to preserve the text more literally use verbs such as "acclaim", "hail", or "shout" (as Driver did). Also lost in most English translations is the use of the vocative, although the Book of Common Prayer translation retained this by use of "O", as did the original Prayer Book translation that Driver gave.
    Hermann Gunkel Hermann Gunkel (23 May 1862 – 11 March 1932), a German Old Testament scholar, founded form criticism. He also became a leading representative of the history of religions school. His major works cover Genesis and the Psalms, and his major in ...
    translated the end of verse 1 as "all the land", i.e. all of the land of Israel, rather than the more generally accepted modern translation of "all the Earth", i.e. everyone; a point upon which
    James Luther Mays James Luther Mays (July 14, 1921 – October 29, 2015) was an American Old Testament scholar. He was Cyrus McCormick Professor of Hebrew and the Old Testament Emeritus at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Virginia. He served as president of the Societ ...
    commented that "Gunkel's historicism led him astray".


    Musical settings


    In Latin

    The Jubilate in Latin was set to music often, including works by
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    in 1575,
    Giovanni Gabrielli Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School (music), Venetian School, at ...
    , and
    Michel-Richard de Lalande Michel Richard Delalande e Lalande'' (; 15 December 1657 – 18 June 1726) was a French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV. He was one of the most important composers of grands motets. He also wrote orch ...
    as his S72/5.
    Fernando de las Infantas Fernando de las Infantas (1534ca. 1610) was a Spanish nobleman, composer and theologian. Life Infantas was born in Córdoba in 1534, a descendant of Juan Fernández de Córdoba who had conveyed the two daughters, ''infantas'' (hence the surname), ...
    ' setting was composed for the
    Jubilee A jubilee is a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. The term is often now used to denote the celebrations associated with the reign of a monarch after a milestone number of y ...
    of 1575. One of the surviving manuscripts of the ''grand motets'' by
    Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ...
    is a setting of the Jubilate Deo, catalogue number LWV 77/16; there is doubt as to its authenticity, and whether it is the same piece as
    Jean Loret Jean Loret (ca 1600-1665) was a French writer and poet known for publishing the weekly news of Parisian society (including, initially, its pinnacle, the court of Louis XIV itself) from 1650 until 1665 in verse in what he called a ''gazette burles ...
    reported performed on 29 August 1660 at the monastery of La Mercy in Paris to celebrate "le Mariage et la Paix" (the marriage of
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    and the peace with Spain).
    Marc-Antoine Charpentier Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'', ''Marche en rondeau''. This theme is still us ...
    set ''Jubilate Deo omnis terra'', H.194, for three voices, two treble instruments and continuo in 1683. Both
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
    , and his father
    Leopold Mozart Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a German composer, violinist and theorist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook ''Versuch einer gründlichen ...
    wrote a setting.


    In English

    William Kethe's metric translation of Psalm 100, "
    All people that on earth do dwell "Old 100th" or "Old Hundredth" (also known as "Old Hundred") is a hymn tune in long metre, from the second edition of the Genevan Psalter. It is one of the best known melodies in many occidental Christian musical traditions. The tune is usually ...
    ", became a popular
    hymn A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. The word ''hymn'' ...
    with the melody by
    Loys Bourgeois Loys "Louis" Bourgeois (; c. 1510 – 1559) was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century. One of the most famous mel ...
    from the
    Genevan Psalter The ''Genevan Psalter'', also known as the ''Huguenot Psalter'', is a metrical psalter in French created under the supervision of John Calvin for liturgical use by the Reformed churches of the city of Geneva in the sixteenth century. Background ...
    ,
    Old 100th "Old 100th" or "Old Hundredth" (also known as "Old Hundred") is a hymn tune in long metre, from the second edition of the Genevan Psalter. It is one of the best known melodies in many occidental Christian musical traditions. The tune is usuall ...
    The Jubilate or Jubilate Deo in English is a daily part of the Anglican liturgy, set to music by many composers.
    Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest E ...
    included it in his ''Te Deum and Jubilate'', and
    George Frideric Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque music, Baroque composer well known for his opera#Baroque era, operas, oratorios, anthems, concerto grosso, concerti grossi, ...
    in his ''
    Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate ''Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate'' is the common name for a sacred choral composition in two parts, written by George Frideric Handel to celebrate the Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, ending the War of the Spanis ...
    ''; both composers took the approach of one movement for each verse, Handel splitting the BCP verse 1 back into its constituent two original Hebrew verses, with one movement each.
    Charles Villiers Stanford Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic music, Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was ed ...
    's setting was part of his innovative '' Morning, Evening and Communion Service in B♭'', and the Jubilate Deo was first performed on 25 May 1879.
    Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams, (; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over ...
    composed two settings of the psalm, ''The Hundredth Psalm'' a choral cantata in 1929 using the BCP translation, and ''The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune'' in 1952 using Kethe's translation, which was used for the
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    and had parts for SATB, organ, orchestra, and congregation. Other settings were written by composers including John Gardner,
    Herbert Howells Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music. Life Background and early education Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucest ...
    ,
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    ,
    Richard Purvis Richard (Irven) Purvis (August 25, 1913 – December 25, 1994) was an American organist, composer, conductor and teacher. He is especially remembered for his expressive recordings of the organ classics and his own lighter compositions for the inst ...
    , George Dyson,
    Kenneth Leighton Kenneth Leighton (2 October 1929 – 24 August 1988) was a British composer and pianist. His compositions include church and choral music, pieces for piano, organ, cello, oboe and other instruments, chamber music, concertos, ...
    ,
    William Walton Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ''Façade'', the cantat ...
    , and
    John Rutter John Milford Rutter (born 24 September 1945) is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer, mainly of choral music. Biography Born on 24 September 1945 in London, the son of an industrial chemist and his wife, Rutte ...
    .
    Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
    composed Jubilate Deo in C in 1961.


    In German

    The
    hymn A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. The word ''hymn'' ...
    " Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt" is a 1646 paraphrase of Psalm 100 by David Denicke.
    Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He ...
    set Psalm 100 to music several times, first as part of his ''
    Psalmen Davids Psalmen Davids (Psalms of David) is a collection of sacred choral music, settings mostly of psalms in German by Heinrich Schütz, who had studied the Venetian polychoral style with Giovanni Gabrieli. Book 1 was printed in Dresden in 1619 as his O ...
    '' of
    polychoral An antiphon (Greek ἀντίφωνον, ἀντί "opposite" and φωνή "voice") is a short chant in Christian ritual, sung as a refrain. The texts of antiphons are the Psalms. Their form was favored by St Ambrose and they feature prominently ...
    psalms in German, published in 1619, '' Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt'',
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    36 set for double choir with echo effects. He wrote a setting of a metred paraphrase of the psalm, "Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt",
    SWV SWV (Sisters with Voices) is an American R&B vocal trio from New York City whose members are Cheryl (Coko) Gamble, Tamara (Taj) Johnson, and Leanne (Lelee) Lyons. Formed in 1988 as a gospel group, SWV became one of the most successful R&B g ...
    189, for the ''
    Becker Psalter The ''Becker Psalter'' is a German metrical psalter authored by the Leipzig theologian Cornelius Becker and first published by Jakob Apel in Leipzig in 1602 under the title ''Der Psalter Davids Gesangweis''. Several composers set the psalms contai ...
    '', published first in 1628. Finally, he composed a setting as part of his ''Opus Ultimum'', the motet (SWV 493) being the first that he composed of the 13 motets in that work for the re-consecration of the Dresden church after its renovation on 28 September 1662. It was believed lost until it was reconstructed in 1981 by Wolfram Steude. A
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    motet In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margar ...
    '' Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt'' was composed by
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    or
    Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...
    , and Johann Gottlob Harrer:Bach Digital Work at The text of the first movement of Bach's ''
    Christmas Oratorio The ''Christmas Oratorio'' (German: ''Weihnachtsoratorium''), , is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. It is in six parts, each part a cantata intended for performance on one of t ...
    '', , is a paraphrase of the psalm.
    Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sy ...
    set the psalm to music for eight voices as '' Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt'', composed in 1844 and published posthumously in 1855.
    Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University ...
    entitled his 1906 setting of Luther's translation, a
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    , '' Der 100. Psalm''.


    In Hebrew

    Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first America ...
    set the Hebrew text of Psalm 100 to music in his
    Chichester Psalms ''Chichester Psalms'' is an extended choral composition in three movements by Leonard Bernstein for boy treble or countertenor, choir and orchestra. The text was arranged by the composer from the Book of Psalms in the original Hebrew. Part 1 us ...
    , the whole psalm forming the majority of the first movement. Other settings were written by
    Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music ...
    and
    Charles Ives Charles Edward Ives (; October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. His music was largely ignored during his early career, and many of his works went unperformed f ...
    .


    See also

    * Hakarat HaTov


    References


    Sources

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    Further reading

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    External links

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    Psalms Chapter 100
    text in Hebrew and English, mechon-mamre.org
    Shout joyfully to the LORD, all you lands
    text and footnotes, usccb.org United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

    introduction and text, biblestudytools.com
    Psalm 100 – A Psalm of Thanksgiving for All Lands
    enduringword.com
    Psalm 100 / Refrain: The Lord is gracious; his steadfast love is everlasting.
    Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain ...

    Hymns for Psalm 100
    hymnary.org {{Psalms 100 Pesukei dezimra Siddur of Orthodox Judaism