Lord of Isagila, help of Babylon, lover of Izida.
—Hymn to Marduk No. 8.
The processional hymn to Marduk opens with the line:
O lord on thine entrance into thy house may thy house rejoice in thee.
—Hymn to Marduk No. 13.
Hebrew temple worship must also have been joyful, when the worshippers obeyed the exhortation, Psalm 100:2: “Serve Yahwe with gladness”; when they praised him “with trumpet sound,” “with psaltery and harp,” “with timbrel and dance,” “with stringed instruments” and “pipe” “with loud cymbals” and “high sounding cymbals,” Psalm 150. Distinctive of the Hebrew hymns is, as we would expect, the great prominence given to the praise of Yahwe in the temple:
Praise, O Jerusalem, Yahwe;
Praise thy God, O Zion.
—Psalm 147:12.
Blessed be Yahwe from Zion,