Text -- Psalms 48:6 (NET)

48:6 Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 48:6

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.