the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Psalms 48:7
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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.
By the east wind you shattered the ships of Tarshish.
You destroyed the large trading ships with an east wind.
With an east wind you shatter the large ships.
With the east wind You shattered the ships of Tarshish.
With the east wind You smash the ships of Tarshish.
With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
As with an East winde thou breakest the shippes of Tarshish, so were they destroyed.
With the east windYou break the ships of Tarshish.
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
or like seagoing ships wrecked by eastern winds.
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.
With a violent storm, the ships of Tarshish shall be broken.
like ships tossing in a furious storm.
With an east wind you shatter the ships of Tarshish.
You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Thou shalt breake ye shippes of the see, thorow the east wynde.
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 there, pangs, as of a woman in travail.
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an East wind.
Thou didst breake the shippes of the sea: through the east wynde.
Thou wilt break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind.
With the east wind thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
in a greet spirit thou schalt al to-breke the schippis of Tharsis.
With the east wind You break the ships of Tarshish.
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
As when You break the ships of Tarshish With an east wind.
You destroyed them like the mighty ships of Tarshish shattered by a powerful east wind.
You wreck the ships of Tarshish with the east wind.
as when an east wind shatters the ships of Tarshish.
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.
By an east wind Thou shiverest ships of Tarshish.
With the east wind You break the ships of Tarshish.
Contextual Overview
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
God revealed himself once again to Jacob, after he had come back from Paddan Aram and blessed him: "Your name is Jacob (Heel); but that's your name no longer. From now on your name is Israel (God-Wrestler)."
But his father wouldn't do it. He said, "I know, my son; but I know what I'm doing. He also will develop into a people, and he also will be great. But his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will enrich nations." Then he blessed them both: Israel will use your names to give blessings: May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh. In that he made it explicit: he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.
There once was a man who lived in Ramathaim. He was descended from the old Zuph family in the Ephraim hills. His name was Elkanah. (He was connected with the Zuphs from Ephraim through his father Jeroham, his grandfather Elihu, and his great-grandfather Tohu.) He had two wives. The first was Hannah; the second was Peninnah. Peninnah had children; Hannah did not.
Enter David. He was the son of Jesse the Ephrathite from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse, the father of eight sons, was himself too old to join Saul's army. Jesse's three oldest sons had followed Saul to war. The names of the three sons who had joined up with Saul were Eliab, the firstborn; next, Abinadab; and third, Shammah. David was the youngest son. While his three oldest brothers went to war with Saul, David went back and forth from attending to Saul to tending his father's sheep in Bethlehem.
But you, Bethlehem, David's country, the runt of the litter— From you will come the leader who will shepherd-rule Israel. He'll be no upstart, no pretender. His family tree is ancient and distinguished. Meanwhile, Israel will be in foster homes until the birth pangs are over and the child is born, And the scattered brothers come back home to the family of Israel. He will stand tall in his shepherd-rule by God 's strength, centered in the majesty of God -Revealed. And the people will have a good and safe home, for the whole world will hold him in respect— Peacemaker of the world!
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 : âJehoshaphat made âships of Tarshishâ to go to Ophir for gold; but they went not: âfor the ships were brokenâ at Ezion-geber.â 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 âbreaking of the ships of Tarshishâ 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 ârealâ 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.
