Solomon: Israel’s Wisest King (28): Solomon’s Second Revelatory Dream (II Chronicles 7:11-22) by Rev. Angus Stewart
I. The Prosperity of King Solomon
II. The Promise to God’s People
III. The Warning to David’s Dynasty
Psalm singing: 71:1-8; 25:15-22; 86:3-10; 79:1-6 (see below for the words to the Psalms)
Scripture reading: I Kings 9:1-9

Psalm: 71:1-8
1 O LORD, my hope and confidence
is plac’d in thee alone ;
Then let thy servant never be
put to confusion.
2 And let me, in thy righteousness,
from thee deliv’rance have :
Cause me escape, incline thine ear
unto me, and me save.
3 Be thou my dwelling-rock, to which
I ever may resort:
Thou gav’st commandment me to save,
for thou’rt my rock and fort.
4 Free me, my God, from wicked hands,
hands cruel and unjust:
5 For thou, O Lord God, art my hope,
and from my youth my trust.
6 Thou from the womb didst hold me up ;
thou art the same that me
Out of my mother’s bowels took;
I ever will praise thee.
7 To many I a wonder am ;
but thou’rt my refuge strong.
8 Fill’d let my mouth be with thy praise
and honour all day long.

Psalm 25:15-22
15 Mine eyes upon the Lord
continually are set;
For he it is that shall bring forth
my feet out of the net.
16 Turn unto me thy face,
and to me mercy show;
Because that I am desolate,
and am brought very low.
17 My heart’s griefs are increas’d:
me from distress relieve.
18 See mine affliction and my pain,
and all my sins forgive.
19 Consider thou my foes,
because they many are ;
And it a cruel hatred is
which they against me bear.
20 0 do thou keep my soul,
do thou deliver me:
And let me never be asham’d,
because I trust in thee.
21 Let uprightness and truth
keep me, who thee attend.
22 Redemption, Lord, to Israel
from all his troubles send.

Psalm 86:3-10
3 Sith unto thee I daily cry,
be merciful to me.
4 Rejoice thy servant’s soul; for, Lord,
I lift my soul to thee.
5 For thou art gracious, O Lord,
and ready to forgive ;
And rich in mercy, all that call
upon thee to relieve.
6 Hear, Lord, my pray’r; unto the voice
of my request attend :
7 In troublous times I’ll call on thee;
for thou wilt answer send.
8 Lord, there is none among the gods
that may with thee compare;
And like the works which thou hast done,
not any work is there.
9 All nations whom thou mad’st shall come
and worship rev’rently
Before thy face; and they, O Lord,
thy name shall glorify.
10 Because thou art exceeding great,
and works by thee are done
Which are to be admir’d ; and thou
art God thyself alone.

Psalm 79:1-6
1 O GOD, the heathen enter’d have
thine heritage; by them
Defiled is thy house : on heaps
they laid Jerusalem.
2 The bodies of thy servants they
have cast forth to be meat
To rav’nous fowls; thy dear saints’ flesh
they gave to beasts to eat.
3 Their blood about Jerusalem
like water they have shed ;
And there was none to bury them
when they were slain and dead.
4 Unto our neighbours a reproach
most base become are we;
A scorn and laughingstock to them
that round about us be.
5 How long, Lord, shall thine anger last wilt thou still keep the same?
And shall thy fervent jealousy
burn like unto a flame ?
6 On heathen pour thy fury forth,
that have thee never known,
And on those kingdoms which thy name
have never call’d upon.