King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 86
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A of . thine ear, O , hear me: for I am and needy. Preserve ; for I am : O thou my , thy servant that trusteth in thee. Be merciful unto me, O : for I cry unto thee daily. Rejoice the of thy servant: for unto thee, O , do I lift up . For thou, , art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. Give ear, O , unto my ; and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O ; neither are there any works like unto thy works. All nations whom thou hast made shall come and before thee, O ; and shall thy name. For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art alone. Teach me thy way, O ; I will walk in thy truth: unite to fear thy name. I will thee, O my , with all : and I will thy name for evermore. For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast from the lowest hell. O , the proud are against me, and the assemblies of men have sought after ; and have not set thee before them. But thou, O , art a full of , and , , and plenteous in . O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid. Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be : because thou, , hast holpen me, and comforted me.
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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