King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 109
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To the , . Hold not thy peace, O of my ; For the of and the of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying . They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. For my love they are my : but I give myself unto . And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. Set thou a man over him: and let stand at his . When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his become . Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be , and his wife a . Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to his children. Let his posterity ; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. Let the of his fathers be remembered with ; and let not the of his mother be blotted out. Let them be before continually, that he may the memory of them from the earth. Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted and needy man, that he might even the broken in . As he loved , so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in , so let it be far from him. As he clothed himself with like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. Let this be the reward of mine from , and of them that speak evil against . But do thou for me, O , for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, thou me. For I am and needy, and is wounded within me. I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the . My knees are weak through ; and my faileth of fatness. I became also a unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads. Help me, O my : O me according to thy mercy: That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, , hast done it. Let them , but thou: when they arise, let them be ; but let thy servant rejoice. Let mine be clothed with , and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. I will greatly with my ; yea, I will him among . For he shall stand at of , to him from those that condemn his .
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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