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They themselves saw[a] it, so they were astonished.
They were terrified; they ran off.
Trembling seized them there—
pain as of a woman in labor.
With an east wind
you shatter[b] the ships of Tarshish.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 48:5 Literally “They, they saw”
  2. Psalm 48:7 A few Hebrew manuscripts read “like an east wind that shatters”
  3. Psalm 48:7 That is, ships that can sail to Tarshish, i.e. well built, able to traverse great distances