Father Ramman, Lord that rideth the storm, is thy name exalted God.
—Hymn to Ramman No. 3.
Yahwe our Lord, how glorious thy name, in all the earth!
—Psalm 8:2.
God will bless us, and shall fear him all the ends of the earth.
—Psalm 67:8.
Who is this king of glory? Yahwe strong and mighty, Yahwe mighty in battle.
—Psalm 24:8.
However the most conspicuous feature of both Assyrian and Hebrew poetry is the occurrence of two parallel lines in the distich or couplet. Parallelism may also occur between the parts of the line, and hence it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the two half lines and the couplet, and between the line of three divisions and the tristich. In the Assyrian hymns, as in the Hebrew hymns, the most common form of parallelism is the synonymous, the second line practically repeating the thought of the first line:
Thou treadest in the high heavens, lofty is thy place: