Trembling seized them there,
    pain like that of a woman in labour.
You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish
    shattered by an east wind.

As we have heard,
    so we have seen
in the city of the Lord Almighty,
    in the city of our God:
God makes her secure
    for ever.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 48:8 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.