Psalms 48:6
Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
In Context
5When they sawe it, they marueiled: they were astonied, and suddenly driuen backe.
7As with an East winde thou breakest the shippes of Tarshish, so were they destroyed.
Cross References
2 Kings 7:7Wherefore they arose, and fled in the twilight, and left their tentes and their horses, and their asses, euen the campe as it was, and fledde for their liues.
Isaiah 21:3Therefore are my loynes filled with sorow: sorowes haue taken me as the sorowes of a woman that trauayleth: I was bowed downe when I heard it, and I was amased when I sawe it.
Daniel 5:6Then the Kings countenance was changed, and his thoughtes troubled him, so that the ioynts of his loynes were loosed, and his knees smote 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 →