And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

PSALMS 50:15KJV
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Psalms 50:15 (KJV)

What does Psalms 50:15 mean?

Psalms 50:15 presents God as someone his people can call on when they are in distress. God promises to rescue them, and the verse describes their response as giving him honor.

The “day of trouble” pictures a time when help is needed. After the call to give thanks in verse 14, God speaks directly to his people about turning to him in that difficult time.

The Hebrew behind Psalms 50:15

  • “trouble” — צָרָה (tsarah): This word can mean distress or a tight situation. Here it gives “day of trouble” the sense of a time of pressure or hardship.
  • “deliver” — חָלַץ (chalats): This word can carry the sense of drawing someone out or rescuing them. In this verse, the promise is pictured as bringing someone out of distress.
  • “glorify” — כָּבַד (kavad): This word can mean giving honor or treating someone as weighty. Here it describes a response that recognizes God’s importance.

Why Psalms 50:15 matters

  • The verse connects worship with a person’s response to God. In the surrounding passage, God says he does not need the animals people offer him (verses 9–13), while verse 15 speaks of honoring him after his help.
  • God’s promise is personal in its wording. The repeated “I,” “me,” and “thou” present the exchange as direct speech between God and the person addressed.

Where else these words appear

“deliver” Hebrew H2502 · used in 44 verses

  • Leviticus 14:40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
  • Joshua 4:13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
  • Psalms 34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

“trouble” Hebrew H6869 · used in 72 verses

  • Genesis 35:3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
  • Psalms 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
  • Isaiah 8:22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

“glorify” Hebrew H3513 · used in 109 verses

  • Genesis 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
  • 2 Samuel 6:22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
  • Proverbs 12:9 He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.