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

biblegateway Psa 48:6

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

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

Trembling seized them like the trembling that a woman experiences during labor.

biblegateway Psa 48:6

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

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

bibleoremus Psa 48:6

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

Trembling has seized them there; they toss in pain like a woman in labour,

biblegateway Psa 48:6

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

Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.

biblegateway Psa 48:6

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.”

² sn The language of vv. 5-6 is reminiscent of Exod 15:15.