The Assyrian and Hebrew Hymns of Praise

by Charles Gordon Cumming

I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with (beholding) thy form.

—Psalm 17:15.

So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary

To see thy power and thy glory.

—Psalm 63:3.

Homage was paid to the Assyrian deities by the bringing of offerings to their temples, and this fact of the offering of sacrifices, finds a place in the hymns:

Father Enlil with song majestically we come:

The presents of the ground are offered to thee as gifts of sacrifice

O lord of Sumer figs to thy dwelling we bring;

To give life to the ground thou dost exist.