King James Version · The united kingdom
Psalms 9
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To the upon , . I will thee, O , with my ; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou . When mine are turned back, they shall fall and at thy . For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in judging right. Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed , thou hast put out their name . O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is with them. But shall for ever: he hath prepared his for . And he shall judge the world in , he shall minister to the people in uprightness. also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And they that know thy name will put their in thee: for thou, , hast not forsaken them that seek thee. Sing to , which dwelleth in : declare among the people his doings. When he maketh inquisition for , he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. Have mercy upon me, O ; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the of : That I may shew forth all thy of the daughter of : I will rejoice in thy . The heathen are sunk down in that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. is known by the which he executeth: is snared in the work of his own hands. . . shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget . For shall not alway be forgotten: the of shall not for ever. Arise, O ; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. Put them in fear, O : that the nations may know themselves to be but men. .
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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