Psalms 48:8
With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.
Cross References
Psalms 44:1Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.
Psalms 48:1A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of the week.
Psalms 87:5Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.
Isaiah 38:19The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make thy truth known to the children.
Micah 4:1And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared in the top of mountains, and high above the hills: and people shall flow to it.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 48:2-8
The Beauty and Strength of Zion. 1 Great is the Lord , and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. 2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. 3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge. 4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. 5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away. 6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. 7… Read the whole commentary →