119 "Yea, over the heaven and the earth, all of them,

120 "His kingship we will exalt.

121 "We will look unto the King of all the heaven and the earth at night when the place of all is darkness.

122 "He hath assigned our dwelling in heaven and in earth in the time of trouble,

123 "He hath allotted stations to the host.

124 "All are magnified by His name; may He direct their sanctuaries.

125 "Asar-lu-dug is the name by which he was named.

126 "Verily, he is a light, the mighty ...

127 "Who ... all the parts of heaven and of the land

128 "By a mighty combat he saved our dwelling in the time of trouble.

129 "God, the One who made man to live, did ... call him in the second place

130 "... those whom He fashioned.

131 "He is the Lord who hath made all to live by His holy word."

[Lines 132-139 are too fragmentary to translate.]

140 In the assembly he appointed their council for them.

141 They said:--"Of our champion, our avenger,

142 "We will exalt the name by our speech."

143 They sat down and in their assembly they proclaimed his rank.

144 Every one of them pronounced his name in the sanctuary.

Seventh Tablet

1 O Giver of plantations, Appointer of sowing time,

2 Who dost make grain and fibrous plants, who makest garden herbs to spring up.

3 O Thou who art weighty in the council-chamber, who art fertile in counsel,

4 To whom the host render reverent obedience ...

5 O Thou, the adored light, the Creator,

6 Who makest straight the direction of the heavens and the earth.

7 He is their patron who fixed their ...

8 Whose provision is abundance, who goeth forth ...

9 O Creator of their new life,

10 Supplier of their wants, that they may be satisfied and glad,

11 Let but a prayer be made to God, and the hearts shall be at rest;

12 Let the rebels attack in wrath, God shall resist them successfully;

13 Let the praise of God be raised on high in the assembly....

14 None is like unto Him.

15 O God, Life of the host, Giver of life,

16 Who stablished the shining heavens,

17 He founded their paths, He fixed their courses.

18 Never shall His deeds be forgotten among men.

19 O God, Holder of holiness, the Holy,

20 Lord of the favourable wind, Lord of adoration and grace,

21 Creator of fulness and abundance, Stablisher of plenty,

22 Who turneth that which is little into that which is much.

23 In sore straits we have felt His favouring breeze.

24 Let them declare, let them magnify, let them sing His praises.

25 O God, the Holy, let men exult.

26 Lord of the holy word, who maketh the dead to live,

27 He felt compassion for those who were in captivity.

28 He riveted on His enemies the yoke which had been resting on them.

29 In mercy towards them He created mankind,

30 The Merciful One in whose power it is to give life.

31 His words shall endure for ever, they shall never be forgotten,

32 In the mouth of the black-headed whom His hands have made.

33 O God, the Pure, let their mouth recite a holy prayer to Him,

34 Who by His holy word hath destroyed all the evil ones.

35 O God, the Wise Heart, who searchest the inward parts of the belly,

36 Who dost not permit the worker of evil to go forth by His side,

37 Establisher of the company of the righteous ... their hearts.

38 Reducer of the disobedient ...

[Lines 39-106 are wanting.]

107 Verily, He holdeth the beginning and the end of them, verily ...

108 Saying, "He who entered into the middle of the chaos resteth not;

109 "His name shall be 'the seizer of the middle.'

110 "He shall set the courses of the stars of the heavens,

111 "He shall herd together the whole company of the rebels like sheep.

112 "He shall ever overcome the chaos."

113 Among the men who are to come after a lapse of time,

114 Let these words be heard without ceasing, may they endure to all eternity,

115 Because God made the heavenly places and moulded the stable earth.

116 The elder proclaimed His name, "Lord of the Lands."

117 All the host repeated the title.

118 The wise one heard and his heart rejoiced,

119 Saying, "He whose title hath rejoiced his elders

120 "Shall be honoured.

121 "He shall dispose of all the benefits of my instruction,

122 "He shall make to have effect my teaching."

123 By the title of "Fifty times" the great ones

124 Proclaimed the names of God fifty times, they magnified His going.

Epilogue

125 Let the first comer take them and repeat them;

126 Let the wise man and the learned man meditate upon all of them;

127 The father shall repeat them to his son that he may lay hold upon them.

128 Let them open the ears of the shepherd and the herdsman.

129 Let man rejoice in God, the Lord of all,

130 That his land may be fertile and he himself abide in security.

131 His word is true, His command altereth not.

132 No one hath ever brought to the ground that which issueth from His mouth.

133 They treated Him with contempt, He turned not His back in flight,

134 No one could resist His wrath at its height.

135 His heart is large, His mercy is great.

136 Of sin and wickedness before Him ...

137 The first comer utters his complaint of humiliation before Him.

[Lines 138-142 are too fragmentary to translate.]