King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 37
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. Fret not thyself because of , neither be thou envious against the workers of . For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. in , and do good; so shalt thou in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in ; and he shall give thee the of thine . Commit thy way unto ; also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy as , and thy as the noonday. Rest in , and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth devices to pass. Cease from , and forsake : fret not thyself in any to do evil. For : but those that wait upon , they shall the earth. For yet a little while, and shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. But the meek shall the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. plotteth against the , and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. have drawn out , and have bent their bow, to cast down and needy, and to such as be of upright conversation. Their shall enter into their own , and their bows shall be broken. A little that a man hath is better than the riches of many . For the arms of shall be broken: but upholdeth . knoweth the days of the upright: and their shall be for ever. They shall not be in the evil time: and in the days of they shall be satisfied. But shall , and the of shall be as lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. borroweth, and payeth not again: but sheweth mercy, and giveth. For such as be of him shall the earth; and they that be of him . The steps of a good man are ordered by : and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for upholdeth him with his hand. I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen forsaken, nor begging bread. He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and is . Depart from evil, and do good; and for evermore. For loveth , and forsaketh not his ; they are preserved for ever: but the of . shall the land, and therein for ever. The of speaketh , and his talketh of . of his is in ; none of his steps shall slide. watcheth , and seeketh to him. will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. Wait on , and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to the land: when are , thou shalt see it. I have seen in great , and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of . But the of is of : he is their strength in the time of trouble. And shall help them, and them: he shall them from , and them, because they in him.
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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