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They cannot stop themselves shaking,
    like a woman who is giving birth to a baby!
You push them away,
    like an east wind that destroys great ships.
We had heard about the great things that God has done.
Now we have seen them for ourselves,
    here in the city of the Lord Almighty,
    the city of our God.
It is God who keeps the city safe for ever!
Selah.

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Trembling seized(A) them there,
    pain like that of a woman in labor.(B)
You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish(C)
    shattered by an east wind.(D)

As we have heard,
    so we have seen
in the city of the Lord Almighty,
    in the city of our God:
God makes her secure
    forever.[a](E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 48:8 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.