Psalms 48:7
“Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an East wind.”
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Psalms 48:7 Context
5They sawe it, and so they marueiled, they were troubled and hasted away. 6Feare tooke holde vpon them there, and paine, as of a woman in trauaile. 7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an East wind. 8As we haue heard, so haue wee seene in the citie of the Lord of hosts, in the citie of our God, God will establish it for euer. Selah, 9Wee haue thought of thy louing kindnesse, O God, in the middest of thy Temple.
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Other Translations for Psalms 48:7
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
- King James Version
With the east wind You break the ships of Tarshish.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
- American Standard Version (1901)
By you the ships of Tarshish are broken as by an east wind.
- Basic English Bible
With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.
- Darby Bible
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
- Webster's Bible
With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
- World English Bible
By an east wind Thou shiverest ships of Tarshish.
- Youngs Literal Bible
(48:8) With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Psalms 48:7
48:7 Breakest - Thou didst no less violently and suddenly destroy these raging enemies of Jerusalem, than sometimes thou destroyest the ships at sea with a fierce and vehement wind, such as the eastern winds were in those parts.