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Bible Verses About Songs

This collection includes 50 passages about Songs. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.

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For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

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Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

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And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

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Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

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Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:

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O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

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The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

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Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.

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The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

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Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

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Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.

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Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.

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Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

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And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

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Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

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Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

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Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.

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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

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Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

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I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

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Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

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Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:

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Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

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Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.

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Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

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Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

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

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And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.

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And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

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And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

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Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,

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Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

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Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

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Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:

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Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

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I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

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Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.

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I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

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I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O Lord, will I sing.

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