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Psalms 35
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By . Contend, , with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell , "I am your ." Let those who seek after be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my be turned back and confounded. Let them be as before the wind, driving them on. Let their way be dark and slippery, pursuing them. For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for . Let come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that . shall be joyful in . It shall rejoice in his . All my bones shall say, ", who is like you, who delivers from him who is too strong for him; yes, and from him who robs him?" Unrighteous rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about. They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of . But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was . I afflicted with . My returned into my own . I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I , as one who mourns his mother. But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease. Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me. , how long will you look on? Rescue from their , my precious life from the lions. I will give you thanks in the great . I will you among many people. Don't let those who are wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes. For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. Yes, they opened their wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!" You have seen it, . Don't keep silent. , don't be far from me. Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my ! My , contend for me! Vindicate me, my , according to your . Don't let them gloat over me. Don't let them say in their , "Aha! That's we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!" Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with and dishonor who magnify themselves against me. Let those who my cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, "May be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!" My shall talk about your and about your all day long.
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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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