Psalms 48:6
(48:7) Trembling seized on them there, pain, as on a woman in travail.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
In Context
5(48:6) They indeed saw—[and] so they were astonished; they were terrified, they were confounded.
7(48:8) With the east wind thou breakest the ships of Tharshish.
Cross References
2 Kings 7:7And they were arisen and fled in the twilight, and had left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
Isaiah 21:3Therefore are my loins filled with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I am too much cramped to hear; I am too much dismayed to see.
Daniel 5:6Then was the king's color changed, and his thoughts troubled him: so that the bands of his loins were loosed, and his knees knocked one against the other.
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 →