Ezekiel 36:25-26

I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Ezekiel 36

13 songs meet this passage

  • Naked Eye · Luscious Jackson

    resonates with Ezekiel 36:25-26

    Water as a symbol of cleansing and renewal parallels the biblical image of being washed into a new heart, though here it's self-directed rather than divine.

  • “Leave behind your heart and cast away”

    Natural · Imagine Dragons

    strains against Ezekiel 36:26

    Scripture promises a heart of flesh replacing a heart of stone; this song tells the listener to do the opposite, to become stone to cope.

  • “Heart made of glass, my mind of stone”

    lovely · Billie Eilish & Khalid

    strains against Ezekiel 36:26

    Where the song describes a heart fragile and a mind hardened, this promise speaks of God replacing a stony heart with a living one, a hope the lyric doesn't reach toward.

  • “Stone heart, machine gun”

    Titanium (feat. Sia) · David Guetta

    strains against Ezekiel 36:26

    Scripture frames a 'stone heart' as something needing transformation, while the song wears hardness as armor and a point of pride.

  • Rise Up (Lazarus) · CAIN

    resonates with Ezekiel 36:26

    The promise of a new heart replacing a dead one mirrors the song's language of resurrection and renewal.

  • “With every wall I built, she saw a canvas”

    The Painter · Cody Johnson

    resonates with Ezekiel 36:26

    The language of a heart of stone being reshaped into something new parallels the song's picture of walls becoming canvases.

  • “I don't like what I am becoming”

    I Am Machine · Three Days Grace

    strains against Ezekiel 36:26

    Where the narrator fears hardening into something unfeeling, this promise points to God replacing a hardened heart with a living one, an answer the song gestures toward but doesn't claim.

  • Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave) · Roxette

    strains against Ezekiel 36:26

    The singer finds a heart of stone in another; Scripture promises God replaces stone hearts with ones capable of real love, a hope this song doesn't reach for.

  • “This heart of stone is where I hide”

    Hole Hearted · EXTREME

    strains against Ezekiel 36:26

    Where the song's narrator hides behind a hardened heart, this promise points to God replacing stone hearts with soft, responsive ones.

  • That's What Love Is For · Amy Grant

    resonates with Ezekiel 36:26

    The imagery of softened defenses and renewed clarity echoes the biblical hope of a hardened heart being made tender again.

  • “You're frozen”

    Frozen · Madonna

    resonates with Ezekiel 36:26

    The image of a frozen, unopened heart mirrors the 'heart of stone' that only God can replace with a living heart.

  • “Heart cold as assassins, I got no passion”

    Big Pimpin' (feat. UGK) [Edited] · JAŸ-Z

    strains against Ezekiel 36:26

    God promises to replace a hard heart with a soft one; here coldness is worn as a badge of pride rather than something to be healed.

  • Beautiful Day · U2

    resonates with Ezekiel 36:26

    Life breaking through hard, unlikely ground mirrors the promise of a new heart given where none could grow.