{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/fbe/fbe193.htm","path":"bib/fbe/fbe193.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe193.htm","text":"The Forgotten Books of Eden, by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr., [1926]\n\"They set a worldly monarchy . . . . they lay waste the Throne of David!' A poetic narrative about the utter disintegration of a great nation.\nO Lord, Thou art our King for ever and ever,\n \u00a0\u00a0For in Thee, O God, doth our soul glory.\n How long are the days of man's life upon the earth?\n \u00a0\u00a0As are his days, so is the hope set upon him.\n But we hope in God, our deliverer;\n For the might of our God is for ever with mercy,\n \u00a0\u00a0And the kingdom of our God is for ever over the nations in judgement.\nThou, O Lord, didst choose David to be king over Israel,\n \u00a0\u00a0And swaredst to him touching his seed that never should his kingdom fail before Thee.\n But, for our sins, sinners rose up against us;\n \u00a0\u00a0They assailed us and thrust us out;\n \u00a0\u00a0What Thou hadst not promised to them, they took away from us with violence.\n They in no wise glorified Thy honourable name;\n \u00a0\u00a0They set a worldly monarchy in place of that which was their excellency;\n \u00a0\u00a0They laid waste the throne of David in tumultuous arrogance.\n But Thou, O God, didst cast them down, and remove their seed from the earth,\n \u00a0\u00a0In that there rose up against them a man that was alien to our race.\n According to their sins didst Thou recompense them, O God;\n \u00a0\u00a0So that it befell them according to their deeds.\n God showed them no pity;\n \u00a0\u00a0He sought out their seed and let not one of them go free.\n Faithful is the Lord in all His judgements\n \u00a0\u00a0Which He doeth upon the earth.\nThe lawless one laid waste our land so that none inhabited it,\n \u00a0\u00a0They destroyed young and old and their children together.\n In the heat of His anger He sent them away even unto the west,\n \u00a0\u00a0And He exposed the rulers of the land unsparingly to derision.\n Being an alien the enemy acted proudly,\n \u00a0\u00a0And his heart was alien from Our God.\n And all things whatsoever he did in Jerusalem,\n \u00a0\u00a0As also the nations in the cities to their gods.\nAnd the children of the covenant in the midst of the mingled peoples surpassed them in evil.\n \u00a0\u00a0There was not among them one that wrought in the midst of Jerusalem mercy and truth.\n They that loved the synagogues of the pious fled from them,\n \u00a0\u00a0As sparrows that fly from their nest.\n They wandered in deserts that their lives might be saved from harm, p. 118\n \u00a0\u00a0And precious in the eyes of them that lived abroad was any that escaped alive from them.\n \u00a0\u00a0Over the whole earth were they scattered by lawless men.\n For the heavens withheld the rain from dropping upon the earth,\n \u00a0\u00a0Springs were stopped that sprang perennially out of the deeps, that ran down from lofty mountains.\n For there was none among them that wrought righteousness and justice;\n \u00a0\u00a0From the chief of them to the least of them all were sinful;\n \u00a0\u00a0The king was a transgressor, and the judge disobedient, and the people sinful.\n Behold, O Lord, and raise up unto them their king, the son of David,\n \u00a0\u00a0At the time in the which Thou seest, O God, that he may reign over Israel Thy servant.\n And gird him with strength, that he may shatter unrighteous rulers,\n \u00a0\u00a0And that he may purge Jerusalem from nations that trample her down to destruction.\n Wisely, righteously he shall thrust out sinners from the inheritance,\n \u00a0\u00a0He shall destroy the pride of the sinner as a potter's vessel.\n With a rod of iron he shall break in pieces all their substance,\n \u00a0\u00a0He shall destroy the godless nations with the word of his mouth;\n At his rebuke nations shall flee before him,\n \u00a0\u00a0And he shall reprove sinners for the thoughts of their heart.\nAnd he shall gather together a holy people, whom he shall lead in righteousness,\n \u00a0\u00a0And he shall judge the tribes of the people that has been sanctified by the Lord his God.\n And he shall not suffer unrighteousness to lodge any more in their midst,\n \u00a0\u00a0Nor shall there dwell with them any man that knoweth wickedness,\n \u00a0\u00a0For he shall know them, that they are all sons of their God.\n And he shall divide them according to their tribes upon the land,\n \u00a0\u00a0And neither sojourner nor alien shall sojourn with them any more.\n He shall judge peoples and nations in the wisdom of his righteousness. Selah.\nAnd he shall have the heathen nations to serve him under his yoke;\n \u00a0\u00a0And he shall glorify the Lord in a place to be seen of all the earth;\n \u00a0\u00a0And he shall purge Jerusalem, making it holy as of old:\n So that nations shall come from the ends of the earth to see his glory,\n \u00a0\u00a0Bringing as gifts her sons who had fainted.\n \u00a0\u00a0And to see the glory of the Lord, wherewith God hath glorified her.\n And he shall be a righteous king, taught of God, over them,\n And there shall be no unrighteousness in his days in their midst,\n \u00a0\u00a0For all shall be holy and their king the anointed of the Lord.\n For he shall not put his trust in horse and rider and bow,\n \u00a0\u00a0Nor shall he multiply for himself gold and silver for war,\nNor shall he gather confidence from a multitude for the day of battle. p. 119\n The Lord Himself is his king, the hope of him that is mighty through his hope in God.\nAll nations shall be in fear before him,\n \u00a0\u00a0For he will smite the earth with the word of his mouth for ever.\n He will bless the people of the Lord with wisdom and gladness,\n \u00a0\u00a0And he himself will be pure from sin, so that he may rule a great people.\n He will rebuke rulers, and remove sinners by the might of his word;\n \u00a0\u00a0And relying upon his God, throughout his days he will not stumble;\n For God will make him mighty by means of His holy spirit,\n \u00a0\u00a0And wise by means of the spirit of understanding, with strength and righteousness.\n And the blessing of the Lord will be with him: he will be strong and stumble not;\n \u00a0\u00a0His hope will be in the Lord: who then can prevail against him?\n He will, be mighty in his works, and strong in the fear of God,\n \u00a0\u00a0He will be shepherding the flock of the Lord faithfully and righteously,\n \u00a0\u00a0And will suffer none among them to stumble in their pasture.\n He will lead them all aright,\n \u00a0\u00a0And there will be no pride among them that any among them should be oppressed.\n This will be the majesty of the king of Israel whom God knoweth;\n \u00a0\u00a0He will raise him up over the house of Israel to correct him.\n His words shall be more refined than costly gold, the choicest;\n \u00a0\u00a0In the assemblies he will judge the peoples, the tribes of the sanctified.\n His words shall be like the words of the holy ones in the midst of sanctified peoples.\n Blessed be they that shall be in those days,\n \u00a0\u00a0In that they shall see the good fortune of Israel which God shall bring to pass in the gathering together of the tribes.\n May the Lord hasten His mercy upon Israel!\n \u00a0\u00a0May He deliver us from the uncleanness of unholy enemies!\n The Lord Himself is our king for ever and ever.","title":"The Forgotten Books of Eden: The Psalms of Solomon: XVII","type":"page"}