Psalms 48:6

48:6 Look at them shake uncontrollably,

like a woman writhing in childbirth.

Psalms 113:9

113:9 He makes the barren woman of the family

a happy mother of children.

Praise the Lord!


tn Heb “trembling seizes them there.” The adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”) is used here, as often in poetic texts, to point “to a spot in which a scene is localized vividly in the imagination” (BDB 1027 s.v.).

tn Heb “[with] writhing like one giving birth.”

sn The language of vv. 5-6 is reminiscent of Exod 15:15.

tn Heb “of the house.”

tn Heb “sons.”