'Calls' in the Bible

He told Samuel, “Go and lie down. If He calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

Then David shouted to the troops and to Abner son of Ner: “Aren’t you going to answer, Abner?”“Who are you who calls to the king?” Abner asked.

what could I do when God stands up to judge?How should I answer Him when He calls me to account?

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.

When he calls out to Me, I will answer him;I will be with him in trouble.I will rescue him and give him honor.

Wisdom calls out in the street;she raises her voice in the public squares.

She has sent out her female servants;she calls out from the highest points of the city:

My love calls to me:M Arise, my darling.Come away, my beautiful one.

An oracle against Dumah:One calls to me from Seir,“Watchman, what is left of the night?Watchman, what is left of the night?”

Look up and see:who created these?He brings out the starry host by number;He calls all of them by name.Because of His great power and strength,not one of them is missing.

Who has stirred him up from the east?He calls righteousness to his feet.The Lord hands nations over to him,and he subdues kings.He makes them like dust with his sword,like wind-driven stubble with his bow.

No one calls on Your name,striving to take hold of You.For You have hidden Your face from usand made us melt because of our iniquity.

“As for you, you are to prophesy all these things to them, and say to them:The Lord roars from heaven;He raises His voice from His holy dwelling.He roars loudly over His grazing land;He calls out with a shout, like those who tread grapes,against all the inhabitants of the earth.

All of them are as hot as an oven,and they consume their rulers.All their kings fall;not one of them calls on Me.

Then everyone who callson the name of Yahweh will be saved,for there will be an escapefor those on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,as the Lord promised,among the survivors the Lord calls.

The voice of Yahweh calls out to the city(and it is wise to fear Your name):“Pay attention to the rodand the One who ordained it.

Herds will lie down in the middle of it,every kind of wild animal.Both the desert owl and the screech owlwill roost in the capitals of its pillars.Their calls will sound from the window,but devastation will be on the threshold,for He will expose the cedar work.

He asked them, “How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls Him ‘Lord’:

“If David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how then can the Messiah be his Son?”

David himself calls Him ‘Lord’; how then can the Messiah be his Son?” And the large crowd was listening to Him with delight.

and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’

When she finds it, she calls her women friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the silver coin I lost!’

Moses even indicated in the passage about the burning bush that the dead are raised, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

David calls Him ‘Lord’; how then can the Messiah be his Son?”

The doorkeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Then everyone who callson the name of the Lord will be saved.

in God’s sight. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

not from works but from the One who calls—she was told: The older will serve the younger.

For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

we encouraged, comforted, and implored each one of you to walk worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.

But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives My slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.