Psalms Chapter 48 verse 7 Holy Bible
With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
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By you the ships of Tarshish are broken as by an east wind.
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With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.
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Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
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Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
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With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
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By an east wind Thou shiverest ships of Tarshish.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. The literal exposition is wholly out of place, since history does not speak of any co-operation of a fleet with a land army in any attack upon Pales. fine. The expression must be used metaphorically of a great and violent destruction wrought by the arm of God upon Israel's foes. Still, the imagery would scarcely have been used, unless there had been something in the circumstances of the time to suggest it, as there certainly was in Jehoshaphat's time, whose fleet of "ships of Tamhish" was "broken" at Ezion-geber (1 Kings 22:48). The poet may have witnessed the catastrophe.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Breakest.--It is natural at first sight to connect this verse immediately with the disaster which happened to the fleet of Jehoshaphat (1Kings 22:48-49; 2Chronicles 20:36). And that event may indeed have supplied the figure, but a figure for the dispersal of a land army. We may render:With a blast from the eastThou breakest (them as) Tarshish ships.Or,With a blast from the east(Which) breaketh Tarshish ships (thou breakest them),according as we take the verb, second person masculine, or third person feminine.Shakespeare, in King John, compares the rout of an army to the dispersion of a fleet-- . . .
