75 Bible Verses about Songs

the trumpeters and singers praised and thanked Jehovah in unison. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other musical instruments, they sang in praise to Jehovah: He is good; his mercy (lovingkindness) endures forever. Then Jehovah's Temple was filled with a cloud.

I will praise the name of God with a song. I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

The Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the music-makers, he and his brothers.

Jehovah is my strength and my shield. My heart trusted him, so I received help. My heart is triumphant and I thank him with my song.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

This is what Jehovah says: I am going to bring the captives back to Jacob's tents and show compassion on their homes. Cities will be built on the ruins, and fortified palaces will be built in their rightful place. The people who live there will sing songs of praise. The sound of laughter will be heard from there. I will make them numerous, and their number will not decrease. I will bring them honor, and they will not be considered unimportant.

But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving! I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is from Jehovah!

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.

Shout joyfully to Jehovah all the earth. Break out into joyful singing, and make music.

David and all the Israelites danced and sang with all their might to honor Jehovah. They played harps, lyres, drums, tambourines, rattles, and cymbals.

David and all the people of Israel celebrated with all their might before God. They did it with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines, cymbals and trumpets.

David told the Levite leaders to appoint some of their brothers to serve as musicians. They were expected to play music on harps, lyres, and cymbals to produce joyful music for singing.

Serve Jehovah with gladness and come before his presence with a joyful song.

Let them bring songs of thanksgiving as their sacrifice. Let them tell in joyful songs what he has done.

Then our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongues with joyful songs. Then the nations said: Jehovah has done spectacular things for them.

Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem! Jehovah has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

Moses and the Israelites sang this song to Jehovah: I will sing to Jehovah, because he has won a glorious victory. He has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea. Jehovah is my strong defender. He is the one who has saved me. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will sing about his greatness. Jehovah is His name, and he is a warrior!read more.
He threw the chariots and army of Egypt's king into the Red Sea, and he drowned the best of the king's army. The depths have covered them. They sank to the bottom just like boulders. With the tremendous force of your right arm, Jehovah, you crushed your enemies. In the greatness of your excellence you overthrow those who rose up against you. You sent your wrath and consumed them like stubble. With a blast from your nostrils, the water piled up. The waves stood up like a dam. The deep water thickened in the middle of the sea. The enemy said: 'I will pursue them! I will catch them! I will divide the loot! I will take all I want! I will use my sword! I will take all they have!' Your breath blew the sea over them. They sank like lead in the raging water. Who among the gods is like you Jehovah? Who is like you, wonderful in holiness? Who can work wonders and mighty acts like yours? You stretched out your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies. Using your powerful love, you rescued (redeemed) the people. Nations learned of this and trembled. The Philistines shook with horror. The sheiks (chiefs) of Edom were dismayed. The leaders of Moab are griped with fear. The inhabitants of Canaan are filled with fear. Terror and dread fall upon them. By the greatness of your arm they are motionless as stone. Until your people pass over, O Jehovah, until the people pass over whom you have purchased. You will bring them and plant them on your own mountain, the place where you live, O Jehovah, the holy place that you built with your own hands, O Jehovah. Jehovah will rule as king forever and ever.

They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvelous are your works, Jehovah God, the Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of the ages (Eternal King) (King of the nations) (King of the holy ones). (Deuteronomy 31:30; 32:4) (Exodus 6:3)

That day Deborah and Barak sang this song: Praise Jehovah! The Israelites were determined to fight. The people gladly volunteered. Listen, you kings! Pay attention, you rulers! I will sing and play music to Israel's God, Jehovah.

David returned from a campaign against the Philistines. That same day women from all of Israel's cities came to meet King Saul. They sang and danced. Tambourines, joyful music, and triangles accompanied them. The women who celebrated sang: Saul has defeated thousands but David tens of thousands!

David sang this song to Jehovah when Jehovah rescued him from all his enemies, especially from Saul. He said: Jehovah is my rock and my fortress. He is my Savior, My God, My rock in whom I take refuge. He is my shield, the strength of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge. He is my Savior who saved me from violence.read more.
Jehovah should be praised. I called on him and was saved from my enemies.

Jehovah is my rock and my fortress. He is my deliverer. He is my God and my crag, the one in whom I take refuge. He is my shield, and the strength of my salvation, my stronghold.

You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble. You surround me with joyous songs of salvation.

Jehovah commands his mercy during the day, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Listen to the glad shouts of victory in the tents of God's people: Jehovah's mighty power has done it!

We have a strong city. God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.

Shout for joy, you heavens! Shout, deep places of the earth! Shout for joy, mountains, and every tree of the forest! Jehovah has shown his greatness by saving his people Israel.

Shout for joy, O heavens! Rejoice, O earth! Break into joyful shouting, O mountains! For Jehovah has comforted his people. He will have compassion on his afflicted.

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.

For the first time David entrusted Asaph and his relatives with the task of singing songs of thanks to Jehovah:

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see, respect and trust in Jehovah.

For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with a contemplative poem.

After they sang a song of praise to God, they went to the Mount of Olives.

After a song of praise to God they went to the Mount of Olives.

How is it then, brothers? When you come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, and has an interpretation. Let all things be done to clarify and offer understanding!

Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God at midnight. The prisoners were listening to them.

Speak to one another in psalms and praise and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to Jehovah.

([Psalm of David]) I was glad when they said to me: Let us go to the house of Jehovah.

Beautiful words fill my mind and stir my heart, as I compose this song for the king. Like the pen of a skilful writer (copyist) my tongue is ready with a poem.

Let me sing to my loved one a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

To them you are nothing more than a singer with a beautiful voice who sings love songs or a musician who plays an instrument. They listen to your words, but they do not do them.

Then David chanted with a lament (dirge) (requiem) over Saul and Jonathan his son. He told them to teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow. It is written in the book of Jashar: Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

The king sang a funeral song for Abner: Should Abner die like a godless fool? Your hands were not bound. Your feet were not in fetters. You fell as one falls in front of wicked men. And all the people continued to cry for him.

Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. All the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations (dirges) to this day. They made them an ordinance in Israel. They are also written in the Lamentations.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah! And let my cry for help come to you. Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me. In the day when I call answer me quickly.

Cut off your hair and cast it away. Take up a cry of sorrow and grief on the bare heights. Jehovah has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'

I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.

Jehovah has become like an enemy fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel. He has sent destruction on all her great houses, turning his strong places into waste. He increases the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

Take up a song of grief concerning the princes of Israel.

They will take up a lamentation over you and say to you: 'How you have perished, O inhabited one, from the seas, O renowned city. You were mighty on the sea. She and her inhabitants imposed her terror on all her inhabitants! Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall. Yes, the coastlands by the sea will be terrified at your passing.'

You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre.

Son of man, sing a funeral song for the ruler of Tyre. Tell him: 'This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'You were the perfect example, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

This is a funeral song. The people from the nations will sing this song. They will sing it as they mourn for Egypt and its many people, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Hear this word that I take up for a cry of sorrow (lamentation) (dirge) over you, O house of Israel.

Now they make fun of me with songs. I have become a joke to them.

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

I have become the laughingstock of all the peoples. I am their mocking song all the day.

In that day they will taunt you and speak mournfully with sorrow and much grief: 'We are utterly ruined! He exchanged the portion of my people and removed it from me. He divided our fields and gave them to the apostate.'

Jehovah makes me powerful and strong; he has saved me.

Jehovah is my strong defender. He is the one who has saved me. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will sing about his greatness.

Truly God is my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid. Jehovah... Jehovah is my strength and my song! He has become my salvation.

Then Moses came, along with Joshua son of Nun, and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. When Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, he said to them: Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today. Command your sons to observe carefully all the words of this law.

Write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for me against the sons of Israel.

Your statutes are my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

([Psalm of David]) I waited patiently for Jehovah and he bent down to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud and clay. He set my feet upon a rock and made me stand erect. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see, respect and trust in Jehovah.

Sing to him a new song. Play your best and shout with joy.

Sing a new song to Jehovah for he has done miraculous things. His right hand and his holy arm have gained victory for him.

I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to you.

Praise Jehovah! Sing a new song to Jehovah. Sing his praise in the congregation of godly people.

Sing a new song to Jehovah. Sing his praise, all the world! Praise him, you that sail the sea. Praise him, all creatures of the sea! Sing, distant lands and all who live there!

They sing a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you bought persons for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You made them kings and priests to our God. They will reign as kings over the earth.

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders. No man can learn that song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, who were redeemed from the earth.