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Broken Bondage

Psalms 48:7

In 11 translations

BSB
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.Or a fleet of trading ships
KJV
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
WEB
With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
ASV
With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
LSV
By an east wind You shatter ships of Tarshish.
YLT
By an east wind Thou shiverest ships of Tarshish.
DBY
With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.
DRC47:8
With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis.
GNV
As with an East winde thou breakest the shippes of Tarshish, so were they destroyed.
JPS48:8
With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
LXXE47:8
Thou wilt break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind.

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Original-language editions

WLC48:8
בְּר֥וּחַ קָדִ֑ים תְּ֝שַׁבֵּ֗ר אֳנִיּ֥וֹת תַּרְשִֽׁישׁ׃KJV:Ps.48.7
LXX-Br47:8
Ἐν πνεύματι βιαίῳ συντρίψεις πλοῖα Θάρσις.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • Ezekiel 27:25–26The ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea. Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.
  • Isaiah 2:16against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
  • 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.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 48:8 in some Bibles
  • 48:7 in most Bibles

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