Call upon Me on the day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will honor Me.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- KJV And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify 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.”
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 107:28Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.
- Ps 91:15He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
- Ps 34:3–4Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.
- Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
- Ps 107:19Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.
- Jas 5:13Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
- Ps 81:7You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.
- Ps 107:6–13Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,
- Job 22:27You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.
- Luke 22:44Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
- 2 Chr 33:12–13When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
- Matt 5:16Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
- Luke 17:15–18One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.
- John 15:8“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
- Acts 16:25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
- Ps 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
- Ps 22:23You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
- Ps 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
- 1 Pet 4:14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
- Ps 66:13–20I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
- 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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