And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and like a great peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like harpists playing their harps.
In context
1Then I looked, and there was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him one hundred forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and like a great peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like harpists playing their harps. 3They sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn that song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth. 4These are those who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed from among humanity as firstfruits for God and for the Lamb,