the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Psalms 48:7
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With the east wind thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
With the east wind You break the ships of Tarshish.
You destroyed the large trading ships with an east wind.
With an east wind you shatter the large ships.
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
With the east wind You shattered the ships of Tarshish.
By the east wind you shattered the ships of Tarshish.
in a greet spirit thou schalt al to-breke the schippis of Tharsis.
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
or like seagoing ships wrecked by eastern winds.
With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
By you the ships of Tarshish are broken as by an east wind.
Trembling took hold of them, pains like those of a woman in labor,
With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.
God, with a strong east wind, you wrecked their big ships.
Trembling took hold of them there, pangs, as of a woman in travail.
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an East wind.
You wreck the ships of Tarshish with the east wind.
as when an east wind shatters the ships of Tarshish.
As with an East winde thou breakest the shippes of Tarshish, so were they destroyed.
With a violent storm, the ships of Tarshish shall be broken.
like ships tossing in a furious storm.
With an east wind, wilt thou shatter the ships of Tarshish.
(47-8) With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis.
By the east wind thou didst shatter the ships of Tarshish.
Thou didst breake the shippes of the sea: through the east wynde.
Thou wilt break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind.
as you wrecked the ships of Tarshishwith the east wind.
With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
With an east wind you shatter the ships of Tarshish.
You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
By an east wind Thou shiverest ships of Tarshish.
Thou shalt breake ye shippes of the see, thorow the east wynde.
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.
With the east wind You smash the ships of Tarshish.
As when You break the ships of Tarshish With an east wind.
With the east wind You break the ships of Tarshish.
With the east windYou break the ships of Tarshish.
Contextual Overview
A song. A psalm of the descendants of Korah.
How great is the Lord , how deserving of praise, in the city of our God, which sits on his holy mountain! 2 It is high and magnificent; the whole earth rejoices to see it! Mount Zion, the holy mountain, is the city of the great King! 3 God himself is in Jerusalem's towers, revealing himself as its defender. 4 The kings of the earth joined forces and advanced against the city. 5 But when they saw it, they were stunned; they were terrified and ran away. 6 They were gripped with terror and writhed in pain like a woman in labor. 7 You destroyed them like the mighty ships of Tarshish shattered by a powerful 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
When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Now that Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again at Bethel. God blessed him,
the Angel who has redeemed me from all harm— may he bless these boys. May they preserve my name and the names of Abraham and Isaac. And may their descendants multiply greatly throughout the earth."
But his father refused. "I know, my son; I know," he replied. "Manasseh will also become a great people, but his younger brother will become even greater. And his descendants will become a multitude of nations."
The man's name was Elimelech, and his wife was Naomi. Their two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. And when they reached Moab, they settled there.
There was a man named Elkanah who lived in Ramah in the region of Zuph in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, of Ephraim.
When you leave me today, you will see two men beside Rachel's tomb at Zelzah, on the border of Benjamin. They will tell you that the donkeys have been found and that your father has stopped worrying about them and is now worried about you. He is asking, ‘Have you seen my son?'
Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. Jesse was an old man at that time, and he had eight sons.
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past, will come from you on my behalf.
"A cry was heard in Ramah— weeping and great mourning. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted, for they are dead."
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 Tarshish — Calmet 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.
