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Psalms 48:4-8

King James Version (KJV)

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— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

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.

Psalms 48:4-8 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 48:4

Theological / Devotional

Were assembled. Verses 4–6 present a graphic description of the advance and sudden destruction of an enemy army. The language is highly compressed. The paucity of connectives in vs. 4 and 5 increases the force of the description (see on Ps. 46:6).

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