King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 103
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. , O : and all that is within me, his name. , O , and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine ; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from ; who crowneth thee with and ; Who satisfieth thy with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s. executeth and for all that are oppressed. He his ways unto , his acts unto the . is merciful and , , and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our ; nor rewarded us according to our . For as the is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our from us. Like as a pitieth his children, so pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are . As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of is from to upon them that fear him, and his unto children’s children; To such as keep his , and to those that remember his to do them. hath prepared his in ; and ruleth over all. , ye his , that excel in strength, that do his , hearkening unto the voice of his word. ye , all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. , all his works in all places of his : , O .
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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