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

Psalms 48:6

6 Look at them shake uncontrollably, ^{▼▼ 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.).}
like a woman writhing in childbirth. ^{▼▼ Heb “[with] writhing like one giving birth.”} ^{▼▼ The language of vv. 5–6 is reminiscent of Exod 15:15.}