\<>\. The Arabic version ascribes this psalm to David, and very likely it is one of his: the Targum calls it “a hymn for the sacrifice of thanksgiving;” and so Jarchi. It is supposed to have been used when peace offerings for thanksgivings were offered up, Lev. 7:11, Lev. 7:12.

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. ] Or, “all the earth” [[2]]; that is, as the Targum, all the inhabitants of the earth, who are called upon to shout unto him as their King; as the angels did at his birth, the disciples when he made his public entrance into Jerusalem, the apostles at…

Serve the Lord with gladness Not with a slavish fear, under a spirit of bondage, as the Jews under the legal dispensation; not in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the Spirit: with spiritual joy and freedom of soul, as under the spirit of adoption; readily, willingly, cheerfully;…

Know ye that the Lord he is God Own and acknowledge him to be God, as well as man; and though a man, yet not a mere man, but the great God and our Saviour, the true God and eternal life; so a man, as that he is Jehovah’s fellow; or our God, as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions; Immanuel, God with…

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving The same with the gates of Zion, loved by the Lord more than all the dwellings of Jacob; the gates of Jerusalem, within which the feet of the saints stand with pleasure; the gates of Wisdom, or Christ, where his followers watch and wait; the gates into his…

For the Lord is good Both in a providential way, and in a way of grace, and does good; he is the good Shepherd, that has laid down his life for the sheep; and the good Samaritan, that pours in the wine and oil of his love and grace, and his precious blood, to the healing of the wounds made by sin:…