Psalm 48:6 Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labor.

◄ Psalm 48:6 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labor.

English Standard Version
Trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in labor.

New American Standard Bible
Panic seized them there, Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

King James Bible
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Trembling seized them there, agony like that of a woman in labor,

International Standard Version
Trembling seized them there, pains like those of a woman in labor,

American Standard Version
Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.

Douay-Rheims Bible
trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.

Darby Bible Translation
Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman in travail.

Young's Literal Translation
Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

48:1-7 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 earth is, by sin, covered with deformity, therefore justly might that spot of ground, which was beautified with holiness, be called the joy of the whole earth; that which the whole earth has reason to rejoice in, that God would thus in very deed dwell with man upon the earth. The kings of the earth were afraid of it. Nothing in nature can more fitly represent the overthrow of heathenism by the Spirit of the gospel, than the wreck of a fleet in a storm. Both are by the mighty power of the Lord.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4-6. For—The reason is given. Though the kings (perhaps of Moab and Ammon, compare Ps 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.