Ecclesiastes 3:7-8

a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Ecclesiastes 3

7 songs meet this passage

  • I Don't Wanna Fight · Tina Turner

    resonates with Ecclesiastes 3:7-8

    The whole song embodies a 'time to keep silence' and a recognition that some seasons of love end, which Ecclesiastes names without shame.

  • “But nothin' is better sometimes”

    when the party's over · Billie Eilish

    resonates with Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

    Ecclesiastes names a time to let go as part of life's rhythm; the song reaches for this same acceptance that ending something can be the right, if sad, choice.

  • Man in Black · Johnny Cash

    resonates with Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

    The lament over war's dead, certain each side believed God backed them, echoes the sober realism of a time for war and a time for peace.

  • Remember When · Alan Jackson

    resonates with Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

    The honest acknowledgment of seasons of joy and brokenness reflects the wisdom that life holds a time for everything, including pain and healing.

  • Hello · Adele

    resonates with Ecclesiastes 3:6-7

    The song's whole posture, reaching back toward something lost and unable to retrieve it, echoes the Preacher's observation that some seasons for keeping and speaking have simply passed.

  • Unbelievable (2013 Remastered) · EMF

    resonates with Ecclesiastes 3:7

    There is a time to be silent and a time to speak; the song's frustration with mismatched conversation taps into this universal tension, even without resolving it wisely.

  • “No more I love you's, the language is leaving me”

    No More "I Love You's" · Annie Lennox

    resonates with Ecclesiastes 3:7

    The Preacher names seasons of silence as part of life's rhythm; the song's exhaustion with words fits this honest, unresolved ache.

Elsewhere in Ecclesiastes 3