Psalm 48:6
New International Version
Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labor.

New Living Translation
They were gripped with terror and writhed in pain like a woman in labor.

English Standard Version
Trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in labor.

Berean Standard Bible
Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

King James Bible
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

New King James Version
Fear took hold of them there, And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,

New American Standard Bible
Panic seized them there, Anguish, as that of a woman in childbirth.

NASB 1995
Panic seized them there, Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

NASB 1977
Panic seized them there, Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

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

Amplified Bible
Panic seized them there, And pain, as that of a woman in childbirth.

Christian Standard Bible
Trembling seized them there, agony like that of a woman in labor,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Trembling seized them there, agony like that of a woman in labor,

American Standard Version
Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And trembling seized them, and pains, as of labor.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Trembling took hold on them: there were the pangs as of a woman in travail.

Contemporary English Version
They trembled all over like women giving birth

Douay-Rheims Bible
trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.

English Revised Version
Trembling took hold of them there; pain, as of a woman in travail.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Trembling seized them like the trembling that a woman experiences during labor.

Good News Translation
There they were seized with fear and anguish, like a woman about to bear a child,

International Standard Version
Trembling seized them there, pains like those of a woman in labor,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Trembling took hold of them there, Pangs, as of a woman in travail.

Literal Standard Version
Trembling has seized them there, | Pain, as of a travailing woman.

Majority Standard Bible
Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

New American Bible
Trembling seized them there, anguish, like a woman’s labor,

NET Bible
Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.

New Revised Standard Version
trembling took hold of them there, pains as of a woman in labor,

New Heart English Bible
Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

Webster's Bible Translation
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

World English Bible
Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

Young's Literal Translation
Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman.

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Context
Broken Bondage
5They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror. 6Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor. 7With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.…

Cross References
Isaiah 13:8
Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

Isaiah 21:3
Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.


Treasury of Scripture

Fear took hold on them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Fear

Exodus 15:15,16
Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away…

Isaiah 13:6-8
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty…

Daniel 5:6
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

pain

Isaiah 21:3
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

Jeremiah 30:6,7
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? …

Hosea 13:13
The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

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Verse 6. - Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. This description is wholly inapplicable to the destruction of Sennacherib's host, unperceived until it was accomplished (2 Kings 19:35), but is sufficiently in agreement with the narrative of 2 Chronicles 20:1-23.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Trembling
רְ֭עָדָה (rə·‘ā·ḏāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7461: A trembling

seized
אֲחָזָ֣תַם (’ă·ḥā·zā·ṯam)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 270: To grasp, take hold, take possession

them there,
שָׁ֑ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

anguish
חִ֝֗יל (ḥîl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2427: A writhing, anguish

like a woman in labor.
כַּיּוֹלֵֽדָה׃ (kay·yō·w·lê·ḏāh)
Preposition-k, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage


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