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Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
Psalms 100:3 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
  • KJV 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.
  • NKJV Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
  • NASB Know that the Lord Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
  • NLT Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

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Quick answer

Know that the LORD is God, our Maker, and we are His people and sheep. We belong wholly to Him.

Overview

This verse grounds worship in the knowledge that the LORD alone is God, who made us and claims us as His own. The image of sheep and pasture expresses His care and our dependence. Jesus takes up this picture as the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for His sheep (John 10:11).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 39

  • Ps 95:6–7O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
  • Ps 46:10“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
  • Ps 119:73Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
  • John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
  • Eph 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
  • 1 Jn 5:20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
  • 1 Pet 4:19So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.
  • Ezek 34:30–31Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people,’ declares the Lord GOD.
  • Ps 149:2Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.
  • John 10:26–28But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.
  • Deut 4:35You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.
  • Deut 4:39Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
  • Ps 79:13Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.
  • Ps 139:13–24For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
  • 1 Pet 2:25For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
  • 1 Cor 6:19–20Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
  • Gal 4:8–9Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
  • 2 Cor 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Ps 78:52He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
  • 1 Pet 5:2–4Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
  • Job 10:8–13Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
  • Ezek 34:11For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.
  • 1 Sam 17:46–47This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
  • Jer 10:10But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
  • Acts 17:23–24For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
  • Isa 40:9–11Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”
  • 1 Kgs 18:36–39At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command.
  • Isa 63:19We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
  • Isa 63:11Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
  • 2 Kgs 19:19And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
  • Ps 74:1–2A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
  • Deut 7:9Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
  • 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
  • Acts 20:28–29Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
  • Eccl 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
  • Ps 95:3For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
  • John 10:14–16I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,
  • Ps 12:4They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
  • Job 10:3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 100:3 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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