Make a Joyful Noise!

MAKE A joyful noise to the Lord, all you lands! Psalm 100:1

Albert Barnes in his time of studying the Bible wrote this commentary regarding the “Joyful Noise” in Psalm 100:1.  He had no idea that it will become a worldwide movement of Praise and Worship like this one. He wrote in his notes  “It may thus be used to denote any shout of joy or praise. In public worship it would denote praise of the most animated kind”

Barnes on Psalm 100:1
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord – See the notes at Psalm 95:1.

All ye lands – Margin, as in Hebrew, “all the earth.” The margin expresses the sense. The idea in the psalm is, that praise did not pertain to one nation only; that it was not appropriate for one people merely; that it should not be confined to the Hebrew people, but that there was a proper ground of praise for “all;” there was that in which all nations, of all languages and conditions, could unite. The ground of that was the fact that they had one Creator, Psa_100:3. The psalm is based on the unity of the human race; on the fact that there is one God and Father of all, and one great family on earth

O come, let us sing unto the Lord – The word here rendered come, means properly "go;" but it is used here, as it often is, as a formula of invitation, in calling on others to share in what is done by the speaker. It is here to be understood as used by one portion of an assembly convened for worship addressing the other portion, and calling on them to unite in the praise of God.

Let us make a joyful noise – The word used here means commonly to make a loud noise, to shout, Job_30:5. It is especially used
(a) of warlike shouts, Jos_6:16; 1Sa_17:20;
(b) of the shout of triumph, Jdg_15:14;
(c) of the sound or clangor of a trumpet, Num_10:9; Joe_2:1.

It may thus be used to denote any shout of joy or praise. In public worship it would denote praise of the most animated kind..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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