King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 89
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Maschil of the Ezrahite. I will sing of the of for ever: with my will I make known thy . For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy shalt thou establish in the very . I have made a with my chosen, I have unto my servant, Thy will I establish for ever, and build up thy . . And shall thy wonders, O : thy also in of . For who in the can be compared unto ? who among can be likened unto ? is greatly to be feared in of , and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. O of hosts, who is a strong like unto thee? or to thy round about thee? Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Thou hast broken in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine with thy strong arm. are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. The north and the south thou hast created them: and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy . and are the habitation of thy : shall go before thy . is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O , in of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy shall they be exalted. For thou art the of their strength: and in thy our shall be exalted. For is our defence; and the One of Israel is our king. Then thou spakest in to thy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. I have found my servant; with my oil have I him: With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. And I will beat down his before , and plague them that hate him. But my and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his be exalted. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his in the rivers. He shall cry unto me, Thou art , my , and of my . Also I will make him my , higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my shall stand with him. also will I make to for ever, and his as the days of . If his children forsake , and walk not in my judgments; If they break , and keep not my ; Then will I visit their with the , and their with stripes. Nevertheless my will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my to fail. My will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my . Once have I by my that I will not lie unto . shall for ever, and his as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a in . . But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine . Thou hast made void of thy servant: thou hast profaned his by casting it to the ground. Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to . All that pass by spoil him: he is a to his neighbours. Thou hast set up of his ; thou hast made all his to rejoice. Thou hast also turned the edge of his , and hast not made him to stand in the battle. Thou hast made his to cease, and cast his down to the ground. The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with . . How long, ? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy burn like ? Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in ? What man is he that liveth, and shall not see ? shall he his from the hand of the ? . , where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto in thy truth? Remember, , the of thy servants; how I do bear in my the of all the mighty people; Wherewith thine have reproached, O ; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine . be for evermore. , and .
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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