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Legacy Standard Bible

Psalms 48:7

With the east windYou break the ships of Tarshish.

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

Christian Standard Bible®
as you wrecked the ships of Tarshishwith the east wind.
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.
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

1Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised,In the city of our God, His holy mountain. 2Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,Is Mount Zion in the far north,The city of the great King. 3God, in her palaces,Has made Himself known as a stronghold. 4For, behold, the kings assembled themselves,They passed by together. 5They saw it, then they were astonished;They were dismayed, they fled in alarm. 6Panic seized them there,Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth. 7With the east windYou break the ships of Tarshish.

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
and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
Genesis 35:9
Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.
Genesis 48:16
The angel who has redeemed me from all evil,Bless these boys;And may my name live on in them,And the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;And may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
Genesis 48:19
But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become the fullness of nations."
Ruth 1:2
The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they came to the fields of Moab and remained there.
1 Samuel 1:1
Now there was a certain man from Ramathaim-zophim from the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
1 Samuel 10:2
When you go from me today, then you will find two men close to Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys which you went to search for have been found. Now behold, your father has ceased to be concerned about the donkeys and is anxious for you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"'
1 Samuel 17:12
Now David was the son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons. And Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men.
Micah 5:2
But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,Too little to be among the clans of Judah,From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel.His goings forth are from everlasting,From the ancient days."
Matthew 2:18
"A voice was heard in Ramah,Weeping and great mourning,Rachel weeping for her children;And she was refusing to be comforted,Because they were no more."

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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