Psalms 48:6
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Psalms 48:6 in other translations
| BSB | Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor. |
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| WEB | Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail. |
| ASV | Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail. |
| YLT | Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman. |
| DARBY | Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman in travail. |
| BBE | Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth. |
| Webster | Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. |
What does Psalms 48:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 48:4-6
4-6. For--The reason is given. Though the kings (perhaps of Moab and Ammon, compare Psa 83:3-5) combined, a conviction of God's presence with His people, evinced by the unusual courage with which the prophets (compare 2Ch 20:12-20) had inspired them, seized on their minds, and smitten with sudden and intense alarm, they fled astonished.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 48:1-7
The glories of the church of Christ. Verses 1-7 Jerusalem is the city of our God: none on earth render him due honour except the citizens of the spiritual Jerusalem. Happy the kingdom, the city, the family, the heart, in which God is great, in which he is all. There God is known. The clearer discoveries are made to us of the Lord and his greatness, the more it is expected that we should abound in his praises. The…
Psalms 48:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 48:6
- 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.
- Isaiah 13:6-8
Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt: And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
- 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.
- 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. Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
- 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? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
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Context
- Psalms 48:5
They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
- Psalms 48:6
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
- Psalms 48:7
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Psalms 48:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tomólos allí temblor; dolor, como á mujer que pare. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ils ont vu, – ils ont été étonnés; ils ont été troublés, ils se sont enfuis consternés. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Beben ergriff sie daselbst, Angst, der Gebärenden gleich. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cur timebo in die mala? iniquitas calcanei mei circumdabit me. |