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Psalm 48:6

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48:6Look at them shake uncontrollably,11

like a woman writhing in childbirth.12

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Footnotes

  1. 11 Heb “trembling seizes them there.” The adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”) is used here, as often in poetic texts, to point “to a spot in which a scene is localized vividly in the imagination” ( 1027 ).
  2. 12 Heb “[with] writhing like one giving birth.” The language of vv. 5–6 is reminiscent of Exod 15:15.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Trembling took hold of them there,

anguish as of a woman in labor.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Trembling seized them there,

pain like that of a woman in labor.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Trembling seized them there,

agony like that of a woman in labor,

NLTNew Living Translation

They were gripped with terror

and writhed in pain like a woman in labor.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Trembling seized them there—

pain as of a woman in labor.

KJV 1900King James Version

Fear took hold upon them there,

And pain, as of a woman in travail.