Psalms 48:7
in Psalms 48With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
KJV
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
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This verse in Psalms 48
Commentary
3 notes on this verse[Daniel 10:6] "And his body was like chrysolite." For "chrysolite," one of the twelve gems inserted in the oracular breastplate of the high priest, the Hebrew has trs'ys (tharsis) , a word which Theodotion and Symmachus simply left unchanged in transcription; but the Septuagint called it "the sea," according to the usage in the Psalms: "With a violent gale Thou dashest the ships of Tharsis in pieces," i.e., "the ships of the sea" (Psalm 48:7).
This site's exposition
You wrecked the ships of Tarshish
on Psalms 48:7-8
You wrecked the ships of Tarshish, and a wind from the east did it. Those were the long-distance trading ships of the age. So we have seen is the answer to what they had heard, and God will establish the city forever.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. As easily as vessels are driven to shipwreck, dost thou overturn the most powerful adversaries; or it may mean the strength of some nations lies in their ships, whose wooden walls are soon broken; but our strength is in our God, and therefore, it fails not; or there may be another meaning, though thou art our defence, yet thou takest vengeance on our inventions, and while thou dost preserve us, yet our ships, our comforts, our earthly ambitions, are taken from us that we may look alone to thee.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּר֥וּחַ | beruach | with a wind of | H7307 → | 378 times |
| קָדִ֑ים | kadim | [the] east | H6921 → | |
| תְּ֝שַׁבֵּ֗ר | teshaber | you shatter | H7665 → | 147 times |
| אֳנִיּ֥וֹת | ʾoniyot | <the> ships of | H591 → | 31 times |
| תַּרְשִֽׁישׁ׃ | tarshish | Tarshish | H8659 → |
בְּר֥וּחַwith a wind of
beruachH7307 →378 times
קָדִ֑ים[the] east
kadimH6921 →
תְּ֝שַׁבֵּ֗רyou shatter
teshaberH7665 →147 times
אֳנִיּ֥וֹת<the> ships of
ʾoniyotH591 →31 times
תַּרְשִֽׁישׁ׃Tarshish
tarshishH8659 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 10:22
For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Kings 9:26
King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
- 1 Kings 10:22
Through
Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
it leads to
- Jeremiah 13:24
“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- Jeremiah 2:27
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble…
- Hosea 13:15
Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder…
- Job 27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
- Jeremiah 13:24
Through
1 Kings 10:22For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
- Genesis 10:4
And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
- 1 Kings 22:48
Where this verse is studied
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Studies2
About Psalms
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Psalms; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 2; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Psalms and Jerome, St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TEN.