King James Version
Psalms 50:15 in the King James Version says “And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 50 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.”
Psalms 50:15 · KJV
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And call”
H7121to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
“upon me in the day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“I will deliver”
H2502to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflexive) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen
“thee and thou shalt glorify”
H3513to be heavy, i.e., in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same
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