6 Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor. 7 With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish. 8 As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah
Psalms 48:6–8
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