Psalms 48:7
You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
In Context
6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Cross References
Exodus 15:14The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
Isaiah 13:8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that labors: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
Ezekiel 27:25The ships of Tarshish did sing of you in your market: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
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 →