KJV King James Version
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
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Psalm 48:7
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
WEB World English Bible
With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
ASV American Standard Version
With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
By an east wind Thou shiverest ships of Tarshish.
Surrounding context — Psalm 48
4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
5 They saw [it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and] hasted away.
6 Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.
7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
10 According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
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Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.Ezekiel 27:25-26The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.Isaiah 2:16And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.1 Kings 10:22For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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