King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 102
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A of , when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before . Hear my , O , and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of : I am like an owl of . I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. Mine me all the day; and they that are mad against me are against me. For I have eaten like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, Because of thine and thy : for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. But thou, O , shalt for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations. Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon : for the time to her, yea, the , is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and thereof. So the heathen shall fear the name of , and all the kings of the earth thy . When shall build up , he shall appear in his . He will regard the of the destitute, and not despise their . This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall . For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from did behold the earth; To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to ; To declare the name of in , and his in ; When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to . He weakened my strength in ; he shortened my days. I said, O my , take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and are the work of thy hands. They shall , but thou shalt : yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their shall be established before thee.
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · The united kingdom, 1050 BC to 931 BC ›
Saul, David, and Solomon. A rare window when both Egypt and Mesopotamia are weak, which is how a small kingdom in the corridor between them could briefly become a regional power.
- The power vacuum
- This is the whole political explanation for the united kingdom. Egypt is fragmented, Assyria is recovering but still local, the Hittites are gone, and nobody is in a position to object to a strong state in the corridor. It lasts about a century, and Israel's golden age fits exactly inside it.
- Phoenicia
- Tyre under Hiram is the commercial power of the coast, and supplies the cedar, the craftsmen, and the shipping for Solomon's building programme. The alliance is trade, not charity: Israel had grain and a land route, Tyre had timber and ships.
- Egypt
- Weak enough that a pharaoh gives a daughter in marriage to an Israelite king, which is the opposite of Egyptian practice in stronger centuries. Late in the era it recovers under a new house, and Shishak will invade within five years of Solomon's death.
- Further afield
- Greece is still in its dark age but beginning to recover, and will adopt the Phoenician alphabet within a century or two. Carthage is founded by settlers from Tyre by tradition in 814 BC. In the Americas the Olmec centre shifts to La Venta.
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