So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your gods! Maybe the gods will notice us, so that we won't perish."
"If so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not ..." These words vividly recall  Psalms 40:17, "The Lord thinketh upon me," which has the meaning that God succours and defends those who call upon him.