Revelation 8

Which worship songs are based on Revelation 8?

  1. Through the Sky — Saint (2010) Revelation 8:1

    The song explicitly combines Revelation’s opening of seven seals with its seven final plagues and seven bowls of divine wrath. Its depiction of futile concealment also corresponds to people seeking shelter from divine judgment in Revelation 6:15-17.

  2. Hell to Pay — Saint (2019) Revelation 8:1-13

    The broken seal and sounding trumpets unmistakably invoke Revelation’s successive cycles of end-time judgment. The song combines these images into the onset of tribulation and divine wrath.

  3. End of Days — Stryper (2024) Revelation 8:1-13

    The broken seals, trumpet judgments, cosmic disturbances, and approaching judgment unmistakably draw on Revelation's successive seal and trumpet visions.

  4. Seven Spanish Angels — Ray Charles (2021) Revelation 8:2-5

    The heavenly scene combines seven angels before God with an altar, prayers rising in heaven, and thunder proceeding from divine judgment. These closely clustered details correspond to John's vision, though the song relocates them into an invented Southwestern setting.

  5. I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS — Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter (2023) Revelation 8:2

    The divine voice identifies itself through the seven apocalyptic trumpets, directly invoking the trumpet judgments introduced in Revelation.

  6. Hello Out There — Johnny Cash (2024) Revelation 8:2

    The song depicts angels sounding seven trumpets over the earth and sea, unmistakably invoking Revelation’s sequence of trumpet judgments and the proclamation of divine kingship.

  7. Burn — Impending Doom (2018) Revelation 8:2

    The blasting of multiple trumpets amid final judgment and the appearance of the King evokes Revelation’s seven trumpets, culminating in the proclamation of Christ’s reign.

  8. Burn (Live) — Brooke Ligertwood (2022) Revelation 8:2

    The bridge closely follows Revelation's opening blessing and declaration of nearness, then deliberately catalogs its sevenfold imagery: stars, lampstands and churches, seals, thunders, angels, and trumpets.

  9. Hear My Song, Lord — Gaither Vocal Band (2019) Revelation 8:3-4

    The portrayal of the congregation’s worship rising like incense to God’s throne closely reflects Revelation’s vision of incense representing the prayers of the saints before the heavenly throne.

  10. I Believe — Dustin Kensrue (2007) Revelation 8:3-4

    The combination of incense, angels, and the saints' ascending prayers closely matches Revelation's vision of an angel offering incense with the prayers of the saints.

  11. Primed and Ready — Saint (2011) Revelation 8:10-11

    Poisoned waters among the approaching apocalyptic disasters evoke the third trumpet judgment, when Wormwood contaminates rivers and springs and causes deaths.

Revelation 8 (King James Version)

1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.

5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!