In thy rising and in thy completion of thy course, yea in thine ascension.
After one further couplet the long subordinate clause ends, and the principal statement is made:
“Hail thou that in the majesty of a king daily rises.”
In the above, the clause: “when thou ascendest” is repeated nine times and may well have been shouted by the choir or concourse of worshippers.
Nergal No. 7 is a hymn with an even greater complexity of repetitions, and is somewhat suggestive of the repetitions characteristic of the Hindu hymns sung to the accompaniment of the rattling Indian drums. The first fourteen lines are:
Nergal’s heroism I will praise (I will sing)
When with a shout the house of the hostile land the lord attacked,
When Shitlam’s scion the house of the hostile land the lord attacked,
Shitlam’s scion who alone is a warrior,
(When with a shout) the house of the hostile land the lord attacked,