A sceptre for remote days has Bel furnished for thy hand.
—Hymn to Sin No. 7.
God is gone up with a shout,
Yahwe with the sound of a trumpet.
—Psalm 47:6.
There is no reference to the sceptre as in Yahwe’s hand, in the biblical hymns, although the sceptre is in the hands of the Messiah. (Psalm 2) As in the Assyrian hymns, emphasis is placed upon Yahwe’s sovereignty over the earth:
For Yahwe most high is terrible
A great king over all the earth.
—Psalm 47:3.
For God is the king of all the earth.