Verses 1-5
An unknown writer invited God’s people to approach the Lord with joy in this well-known psalm. We can serve Him gladly because He is the Creator, and we can worship Him thankfully because He is good and faithful.
"Known as the Jubilate (’O be joyful’), it is a psalm much used in liturgical worship; but William Kethe’s fine paraphrase, ’All people that on earth do dwell’, has even wider currency wherever English is spoken. Finer still, but somewhat freer, is Isaac Watts’ version, ’Before Jehovah’s aweful [sic] throne’." [Note: Kidner, Psalms 73-150, p. 356.]
"Its [this psalm’s] position after the psalms proclaiming Yahweh’s kingship (96-99) suggests the classification with these psalms. More than likely it functions as a hymnic conclusion of this collection." [Note: VanGemeren, p. 638.]
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