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            Trembling seized them
                like the trembling that a woman experiences during labor.
With the east wind you smash the ships of Tarshish.

The things we had only heard about, we have now seen
    in the city of Yahweh Tsebaoth,
    in the city of our Elohim.
        Elohim makes Zion stand firm forever. Selah

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Trembling seized(A) them there,
    pain like that of a woman in labor.(B)
You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish(C)
    shattered by an east wind.(D)

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
    forever.[a](E)

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Footnotes

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