is followed by 135:15:
The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.
Yet this may not be an outright denial of the existence of all gods, nor an interesting example of the retention of phraseology which the religion had outgrown. The Israel of most of the hymns was very much a nation among the nations. With feeling, at once intensely national and intensely religious, Israel poured its contempt upon idolatry, and declared that the nations had no god. On earth Yahwe is the supreme God, and in heaven in the heavenly court he reigns supreme, and the gods who are there, serve him and enhance his glory.
The Glory of His Name
Assyrian and Hebrew hymns are alike, in that both exalt the name of deity. For both the name of the god is great and glorious and to be feared. It is known in all the earth and is not to be forgotten. There seems to have been an element of mystery, possibly due to magic, attached to the name of the Assyrian deity.
Flood watering the harvest, knows anyone thy name.
—Hymn to Nergal No. 6.
And in this connection it is well to notice that Ishtar announces herself by several names:
My first name is I am Ishtar