Psalms 48:6 · KJV
“Fear took hold upon them there, {and} pain, as of a woman in travail.”
— Psalms 48:6
They saw {it, and} so they marvelled; they were troubled, {and} hasted away.
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Psalms 48 — Context
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
5They saw {it, and} so they marvelled; they were troubled, {and} hasted away.
6Fear took hold upon them there, {and} pain, as of a woman in travail.
7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
8As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
Cross References
Hosea 13:13
The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he {is} an unwise son; for he should not stay long in {the place of} the breaking forth of children. {long: Heb. a time}
Isaiah 13:6-8
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD {is} at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 21:3
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing {of it}; I was dismayed at the seeing {of it}.
Jeremiah 30:6-7
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? {a man: Heb. a male}
Daniel 5:6
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. {countenance: Chaldee, brightnesses} {was changed: Chaldee, changed it} {joints: or, girdles: Chaldee, bindings, or, knots}
Exodus 15:15-16
Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.