King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 38
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, to bring to remembrance. O , rebuke me not in thy : neither me in thy hot displeasure. For thine arrows stick in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my because of thine ; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my . For mine are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. I am troubled; I am greatly; I go all the day long. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my . I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of . , all my is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. panteth, my strength faileth me: as for of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his . Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose are no reproofs. For in thee, O , do I : thou wilt hear, O my . For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. For I will declare mine ; I will be sorry for my . But mine are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. They also that render evil for good are mine ; because I follow the thing that good is. Forsake me not, O : O my , be not far from me. Make haste to help me, O my .
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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