And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- BSB Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
- NKJV Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”
- NASB Call upon Me on the day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will honor Me.”
- NLT Then call on me when you are in trouble, and I will rescue you, and you will give me glory.”
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Quick answer
God invites His people to call on Him in trouble, promising deliverance so that they will honor Him. Dependence on God glorifies Him.
Overview
Rather than needing gifts, God desires that His people trust and call upon Him in distress; He will deliver, and they will give Him glory. This reveals worship's true logic: God supplies, the worshiper receives and praises. The verse anticipates the gospel pattern in which salvation is God's gift, met by grateful praise.
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- Ps 107:28Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
- Ps 91:15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
- Ps 34:3–4O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
- Zech 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
- Ps 107:19Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
- Jas 5:13Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
- Ps 81:7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
- Ps 107:6–13Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
- Job 22:27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
- Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
- 2 Chr 33:12–13And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
- Matt 5:16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
- Luke 17:15–18And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,
- John 15:8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
- Acts 16:25And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
- Ps 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
- Ps 22:23Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
- Ps 50:23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
- 1 Pet 4:14If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
- Ps 66:13–20I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
- 1 Pet 4:11If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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