King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 35
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. Plead my cause, O , with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. Draw out also the spear, and stop against them that persecute me: say unto , I am thy . Let them be confounded and that seek after : let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. Let them be as before the wind: and let chase them. Let their way be dark and slippery: and let persecute them. For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for . Let come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very let him fall. And shall be joyful in : it shall rejoice in his . All my bones shall say, , who is like unto thee, which deliverest from him that is too strong for him, yea, and from him that spoileth him? False did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of . But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was : I humbled with ; and my returned into mine own . I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: With mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. , how long wilt thou look on? rescue from their destructions, my darling from the lions. I will give thee thanks in the great : I will thee among much people. Let not them that are mine wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. Yea, they opened their wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. This thou hast seen, O : keep not silence: O , be not far from me. Stir up thyself, and awake to my , even unto my cause, my and my . Judge me, O my , according to thy ; and let them not rejoice over me. Let them not say in their , Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. Let them be and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with and dishonour that magnify themselves against me. Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that my cause: yea, let them say continually, Let be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. And my shall speak of thy and of thy all the day long.
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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