Psalms 48:6

Look at them shake uncontrollably, ¹  like a woman writhing in childbirth. ² 

Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labour.

Panic seized them there, Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

They were gripped with terror, like a woman writhing in the pain of childbirth

They doubled up in pain like a woman having a baby.

Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.

trembling took hold of them there, pains as of a woman in labor,

Fear took hold of them there, And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,

Look at them shake uncontrollably, ¹  like a woman writhing in childbirth. ² 

¹ 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.).

² tn Heb “[with] writhing like one giving birth.”

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