Psalms 48:7

Psa 48:7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Ver. 7. Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish ] i.e. Of the ocean, or of the Mediterranean Sea, Isaiah 2:16 ; Isaiah 23:1 ; Isaiah 23:6 ; Isaiah 23:10 ; Isaiah 23:14 . The meaning is, Like as thou, O God, with thine east wind, that Euroclydon especially, which Pliny calleth Navigantium pestem (the mariner’s mischief), art wont to dash and drown the tallest ships at thy pleasure; so thou both canst and wilt deal by thy Church’s enemies. To whom, therefore, this text should be as those knuckles of a man’s hand were to Belshazzar, to write them their destiny; or as Daniel was to him, to read it unto them.