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Psalm 50:15

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
16But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
17since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
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Notice

The “day of trouble” becomes a time to call on God, whose promise of rescue leads beyond relief to honoring him.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Jeremiah 33:3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’Both passages tell the hearer to call on God and attach a promise: deliverance in the psalm, an answer and revelation in Jeremiah.
Zechariah 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 …Both connect calling on God amid hardship with his response and his people's acknowledgment of him.
Luke 11:9“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.Both pair a command to seek help with a promise of response, though Luke speaks of asking, seeking, and knocking.
Luke 23:43Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”The connection is broad: God promises deliverance in the psalm, while Jesus promises his hearer that he will be with him in Paradise.
Psalm 107:28Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.Both describe calling to God in trouble and his deliverance; Psalm 107 recounts the rescue that Psalm 50 promises.
Psalm 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.Both link calling on God with deliverance from trouble; Psalm 50 speaks of honoring God, while Psalm 91 promises honor to the caller.
Jeremiah 29:12You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.Both speak of calling on God, with Jeremiah promising that God will listen and Psalm 50 promising that he will deliver.
Psalm 34:3–4Oh magnify the LORD with me. Let’s exalt his name together.Honoring God is their shared thread: Psalm 50 names it as the response to deliverance, while Psalm 34 urges shared praise.
Isaiah 65:24It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.Both connect calling on God with his response; Isaiah emphasizes that his answer comes even before the call.
James 5:13Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.Both direct people in hardship toward prayer: calling on God in the day of trouble corresponds to praying when suffering.
Psalm 107:19Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses.Both join a cry to God in trouble with rescue from distress, making God the one who delivers.
Matthew 7:7“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.Both attach a promise of response to a command to ask, encouraging the hearer to seek help.
Where this verse fits

Anxiety or panic. fear for the future. answered prayer.

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One step

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Name one trouble in prayer before bed tonight

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Encouragement

The promise leaves the timing and form of rescue unstated. Yet God tells his people to call on him in trouble, and their deliverance will bring him honor.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).