Psalms 48:7
As with an East winde thou breakest the shippes of Tarshish, so were they destroyed.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
In Context
6Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.
Cross References
Exodus 15:14The people shall heare and be afraide: sorow shall come vpon the inhabitants of Palestina.
1 Kings 22:48Iehoshaphat made shippes of Tharshish to sayle to Ophir for golde, but they went not, for the shippes were broken at Ezion Gaber.
Isaiah 13:8And they shalbe afraid: anguish and sorowe shall take them, and they shall haue paine, as a woman that trauaileth: euery one shall be amased at his neighbour, and their faces shalbe like flames of fire.
Ezekiel 27:25The shippes of Tarshish were thy chiefe in thy marchandise, and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the middes of the sea.
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 →