Psalms 48:7 · KJV
“Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.”
— Psalms 48:7
Fear took hold upon them there, {and} pain, as of a woman in travail.
As 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.
Psalms 48 — Context
They 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.
9We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
Cross References
Jeremiah 18:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
1 Kings 22:48
{There was} then no king in Edom: a deputy {was} king.
Ezekiel 27:25-26
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
Isaiah 2:16
And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. {pleasant...: Heb. pictures of desire}
1 Kings 10:22
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. {ivory: or, elephants' teeth}