What does the Bible say about angels singing?
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The Bible portrays angels as joyful worshipers who proclaim God’s holiness, glory, saving work, and final victory, while reserving worship for God alone. At creation, the morning stars sang together in praise (Job 38:7), and at Christ’s birth a heavenly multitude praised God, announcing peace through the Savior (Luke 2:13-14). Seraphim continually cry, “Holy, holy, holy,” before the Lord (Isaiah 6:2-3). Revelation shows innumerable angels joining the redeemed in exalting the slain Lamb and God on His throne (Revelation 5:8-13; 15:1-3). Their praise points us to Christ and calls the church to worship God with reverence and gladness.
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- Luke 2:13-14 19 votes
Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
- Job 38:7 18 votes
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- Revelation 5:8-11 10 votes
Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.” I looked, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands,
- Zephaniah 3:17 10 votes
Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
- Revelation 15:1-3 9 votes
I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished. I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
- Revelation 5:13 7 votes
I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”
- Revelation 5:11 7 votes
I looked, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands,
- Isaiah 6:2-3 5 votes
Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
- Luke 2:13-15 4 votes
Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.” When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
- Psalms 98:4 4 votes
Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
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