King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 42
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To the , Maschil, for the sons of . As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth after thee, O . thirsteth for , for the living : when shall I come and appear before ? My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy ? When I remember these things, I pour out in me: for I had gone with , I went with them to the house of , with the voice of joy and , with a multitude that kept holyday. Why art thou cast down, O ? and why art thou disquieted in me? thou in : for I shall yet him for the help of his countenance. O my , is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. Yet will command his in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my unto the of my life. I will say unto , Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I because of the of ? As with a in my bones, mine me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy ? Why art thou cast down, O ? and why art thou disquieted within me? thou in : for I shall yet him, who is the health of my countenance, and 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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