Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 48:5

"They saw it, then were they amazed; They were dismayed, they hasted away." — Psalms 48:5 (ASV)

They saw. —A verse like Psalms 46:6, vivid from the omission of the conjunctions, wrongly supplied by the Authorised Version. It has reminded commentators of Caesar’s Veni, vidi, vici.

They looked, and so were terrified, bewildered, panic-struck.

Hastened away. —Or, sprung up in alarm.