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Psalms 38
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A Psalm by , for a memorial. , don't rebuke me in your , neither me in your hot displeasure. For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. There is no soundness in my because of your , neither is there any health in my bones because of my . For my have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness. I am in pain and greatly. I go all day long. For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my . I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of . , all my is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you. throbs. My strength fails me. As for of my eyes, it has also left me. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away. They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and deceits all day long. But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his . Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose are no reproofs. For I in you, . You will answer, my . For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips." For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me. For I will declare my . I will be sorry for my . But are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous. They who give evil for good are also to me, because I follow what is good. Don't forsake me, . My , don't be far from me. Hurry to help me, , my .
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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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