I will call to you whenever I’m in trouble, and you will answer me.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.
- KJV In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
- BSB In the day of my distress I call on You, because You answer me.
- NKJV In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, For You will answer me.
- NASB On the day of my trouble I will call upon You, For You will answer me.
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Quick answer
In the day of trouble David calls on God, confident He will answer. Faith turns to God especially in distress.
Overview
This verse expresses settled trust that God responds to those who cry out in their need. Trouble drives the believer to prayer rather than despair. Such confidence is vindicated in Christ, through whom God invites His people to approach the throne of grace in time of need.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Jonah 2:2He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
- Ps 34:4–6I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
- Ps 17:6I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
- Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Heb 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
- Lam 3:55–57I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
- Isa 26:16Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
- Ps 142:1A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
- Ps 18:6In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
- 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 77:1–2For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph. My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.
- Ps 142:3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
- Ps 55:16–18As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.
- Luke 22:44Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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