King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 10
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Why standest thou afar off, O ? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? in his pride doth persecute : let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. For boasteth of ’s , and blesseth the covetous, whom abhorreth. , through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after : is not in all his . His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his , he puffeth at them. He hath said in , I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. His is full of and deceit and fraud: under his is mischief and . He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he the innocent: his eyes are privily set against . He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch : he doth catch , when he draweth him into his net. He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that may fall by his strong ones. He hath said in , hath forgotten: he hideth ; he will never see it. Arise, O ; O , lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Wherefore doth contemn ? he hath said in , Thou wilt not require it. Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of . Break thou the arm of and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. is King : the heathen are out of his land. , thou hast heard the of the humble: thou wilt prepare their , thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: To judge and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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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