World English Bible · The united kingdom
Psalms 40
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. A Psalm by . I waited patiently for . He turned to me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry . He set my feet on a , and gave me a firm place to stand. He has put a new song in my , even to our . Many shall see it, and fear, and shall in . is the man who makes his , and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies. Many, , my , are the wonderful works which you have done, and your which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted. and you didn't . You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and . Then I said, "Behold, I have come. about me in the book in . I delight to do your will, my . Yes, is within ." I have proclaimed glad news of in the great . Behold, I will not seal my , , you know. I have not hidden your within . I have declared your and your . I have not concealed your and your truth from the great . Don't withhold your from me, . Let your and your truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. has failed me. Be pleased, , to me. Hurry to help me, . Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt. Let them be desolate by reason of their that tell me, "Aha! Aha!" Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your say continually, "Let be exalted!" But I am and needy. May think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, 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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