King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 31
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To the , . In thee, O , do I put my ; let me never be : me in thy . thine ear to me; me speedily: be thou my strong , for an house of defence to me. For thou art and my ; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me. Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. Into thine hand I commit : thou hast me, O of truth. I have hated them that regard lying : but I in . I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known in adversities; And hast not shut me up into the hand of : thou hast set my feet in a large room. Have mercy upon me, O , for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine , and my bones are consumed. I was a among all mine , but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. I am forgotten as a man out of : I am like a broken . For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they together against me, they devised to take away my life. But I trusted in thee, O : I said, Thou art my . My times are in thy hand: me from the hand of mine , and from them that persecute me. Make thy to shine upon thy servant: me for thy ’ sake. Let me not be , O ; for I have called upon thee: let be , and let them be silent in the . Let the be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against . Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of . be : for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city. For I said in my haste, I am before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. O love , all ye his : for preserveth the , and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen , all ye that in .
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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