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Psalms 9
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. Set to "The of the Son." A Psalm by . I will to with my . I will tell of all your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing to your name, O . When , they stumble and in your . For you have maintained my cause. You sit on judging righteously. You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed . You have blotted out their name and ever. is overtaken by endless . The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has . But reigns . He has prepared his for . He will judge the world in . He will administer to the peoples in uprightness. will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble. Those who know your name will put their in you, for you, , have not forsaken those who seek you. Sing to , who dwells in , and declare among the people what he has done. For he who avenges remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of . Have mercy on me, . See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the of , that I may show all of your . I will rejoice in your of the daughter of . have sunk down in that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. has made himself known. He has executed . is snared by the work of his own hands. . . shall be turned back to , even all the nations that forget . For shall not always be forgotten, nor the of . Arise, ! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight. Put them in fear, . Let the nations know that they are only men. .
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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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