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Psalms 48:7

as you wrecked the ships of Tarshishwith the east wind.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Tarshish;   War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ships;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Winds;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Psalms;   Tarshish;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Korah, Korahites;   Psalms;   Sin;   Tarshish (1);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - East;   Ship;   Tarshish, Tharshish;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Korah;   Psalms the book of;   Tarshish;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Tar'shish;   Winds;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Beryl;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Psalms, Book of;   Ships and Boats;   Wind;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tarshish;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 12;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
King James Version
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
English Standard Version
By the east wind you shattered the ships of Tarshish.
New Century Version
You destroyed the large trading ships with an east wind.
New English Translation
With an east wind you shatter the large ships.
Amplified Bible
With the east wind You shattered the ships of Tarshish.
New American Standard Bible
With the east wind You smash the ships of Tarshish.
World English Bible
With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
Geneva Bible (1587)
As with an East winde thou breakest the shippes of Tarshish, so were they destroyed.
Legacy Standard Bible
With the east windYou break the ships of Tarshish.
Berean Standard Bible
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
Contemporary English Version
or like seagoing ships wrecked by eastern winds.
Complete Jewish Bible
Trembling took hold of them, pains like those of a woman in labor,
Darby Translation
With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.
Easy-to-Read Version
God, with a strong east wind, you wrecked their big ships.
George Lamsa Translation
With a violent storm, the ships of Tarshish shall be broken.
Good News Translation
like ships tossing in a furious storm.
Lexham English Bible
With an east wind you shatter the ships of Tarshish.
Literal Translation
You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt breake ye shippes of the see, thorow the east wynde.
American Standard Version
With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
Bible in Basic English
By you the ships of Tarshish are broken as by an east wind.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Trembling took hold of them there, pangs, as of a woman in travail.
King James Version (1611)
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an East wind.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou didst breake the shippes of the sea: through the east wynde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou wilt break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind.
English Revised Version
With the east wind thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in a greet spirit thou schalt al to-breke the schippis of Tharsis.
Update Bible Version
With the east wind You break the ships of Tarshish.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
New King James Version
As when You break the ships of Tarshish With an east wind.
New Living Translation
You destroyed them like the mighty ships of Tarshish shattered by a powerful east wind.
New Life Bible
You wreck the ships of Tarshish with the east wind.
New Revised Standard
as when an east wind shatters the ships of Tarshish.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With an east wind, wilt thou shatter the ships of Tarshish.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(47-8) With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis.
Revised Standard Version
By the east wind thou didst shatter the ships of Tarshish.
Young's Literal Translation
By an east wind Thou shiverest ships of Tarshish.
THE MESSAGE
You smashed the ships of Tarshish with a storm out of the East. We heard about it, then we saw it with our eyes— In God 's city of Angel Armies, in the city our God Set on firm foundations, firm forever.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
With the east wind You break the ships of Tarshish.

Contextual Overview

1The Lord is great and highly praisedin the city of our God.His holy mountain, 2 rising splendidly, is the joy of the whole earth. Mount Zion on the slopes of the north is the city of the great King. 3God is known as a strongholdin its citadels. 4Look! The kings assembled;they advanced together. 5They looked and froze with fear;they fled in terror. 6Trembling seized them there,agony like that of a woman in labor, 7as you wrecked the ships of Tarshishwith the east wind.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

breakest: Ezekiel 27:25, Ezekiel 27:26

ships: 1 Kings 22:48, Isaiah 2:16

east: Jeremiah 18:17

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 10:22 - Tharshish Psalms 107:23 - go down Isaiah 23:1 - ye ships Ezekiel 30:4 - pain Revelation 8:9 - the ships

Cross-References

Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he took as his wife Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
Genesis 35:9
God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.
Genesis 48:16
the angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may he bless these boys.And may they be called by my nameand the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,and may they grow to be numerous within the land.
Genesis 48:19
But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know! He too will become a tribe, and he too will be great; nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a populous nation.”
Ruth 1:2
The man’s name was Elimelech, and his wife’s name was Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They entered the fields of Moab and settled there.
1 Samuel 1:1
There was a man from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. His name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
1 Samuel 10:2
Today when you leave me, you’ll find two men at Rachel’s Grave at Zelzah in the territory of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you went looking for have been found, and now your father has stopped being concerned about the donkeys and is worried about you, asking: What should I do about my son?’
1 Samuel 17:12
Now David was the son of the Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah named Jesse. Jesse had eight sons and during Saul’s reign was already an old man.
Micah 5:2
Bethlehem Ephrathah,you are small among the clans of Judah;one will come from youto be ruler over Israel for me.His origin is from antiquity,from ancient times.
Matthew 2:18
A voice was heard in Ramah,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with east wind. This is either another simile, expressing the greatness of the dread and fear that shall now seize the kings of the earth; which will be, as Kimchi observes, as if they were smitten with a strong east wind, which breaks the ships of Tarshish; and to the same purpose is the note of Aben Ezra; who says, the psalmist compares the pain that shall take hold upon them to an east wind in the sea, which breaks the ships; for by Tarshish is meant, not Tartessus in Spain, nor Tarsus in Cilicia, or the port to which the Prophet Jonah went and took shipping; but the sea in general: or else this phrase denotes the manner in which the antichristian kings, and antichristian states, wilt be destroyed; just as ships upon the ocean are dashed to pieces with a strong east wind: or it may design the loss of all their riches and substance brought to them in ships; hence the lamentations of merchants, and sailors, and ship masters, Revelation 18:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish - On the ships of Tarshish, see the notes on Isaiah 2:16. The allusion to these ships here may have been to illustrate the power of God; the ease with which he destroys that which man has made. The ships so strong - the ships made to navigate distant seas, and to encounter waves and storms - are broken to pieces with infinite ease when God causes the wind to sweep over the ocean. With so much ease God overthrows the most mighty armies, and scatters them. His power in the one case is strikingly illustrated by the other. It is not necessary, therefore, to suppose that there was any actual occurrence of this kind particularly in the eye of the psalmist; but it is an interesting fact that such a disaster did befall the navy of Jehoshaphat himself, 1 Kings 22:48 : “Jehoshaphat made “ships of Tarshish” to go to Ophir for gold; but they went not: “for the ships were broken” at Ezion-geber.” Compare 2 Chronicles 20:36-37. This coincidence would seem to render it not improbable that the discomfiture of the enemies of Jehoshaphat was particularly referred to in this psalm, and that the overthrow of his enemies when Jerusalem was threatened called to remembrance an important event in his own history, when the power of God was illustrated in a manner not less unexpected and remarkable. If this was the allusion, may not the reference to the “breaking of the ships of Tarshish” have been designed to show to Jehoshaphat, and to the dwellers in Zion, that they should not be proud and self-confident, by reminding them of the ease with which God had scattered and broken their own mighty navy, and by showing them that what he had done to their enemies he could do to them also, notwithstanding the strength of their city, and that their “real” defense was not in walls and bulwarks reared by human hand, anymore than it could be in the natural strength of their position only, but in God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 48:7. Thou breakest the ships of TarshishCalmet thinks this may refer to the discomfiture of Cambyses, who came to destroy the land of Judea. "This is apparently," says he, "the same tempest which struck dismay into the land-forces of Cambyses, and wrecked his fleet which was on the coasts of the Mediterranean sea, opposite to his army near the port of Acco, or the Ptolemais; for Cambyses had his quarters at Ecbatana, at the foot of Mount Carmel; and his army was encamped in the valley of Jezreel." Ships of Tarshish he conjectures to have been large stout vessels, capable of making the voyage of Tarsus, in Cilicia.


 
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