[1523] I knew how Thou art a God gracious.
[1524] For the Babylonian myths see Sayce’s Hibbert Lectures; George Smith’s Assyrian Discoveries; and Gunkel, Schöpfung u. Chaos.
[1525] Passages in which this class of myths are taken in a physical sense are Job iii. 8, vii. 12, xxvi. 12, 13, etc., etc.; and passages in which it is applied politically are Isa. xxvii. 1, li. 9; Jer. li. 34, 44; Psalm lxxiv., etc. See Gunkel, Schöpfung u. Chaos.
[1526] Chap. xvii. 12–14.
[1527] Jer. li. 34.
[1528] Heb. margin, LXX. and Syr.; Heb. text us.
[1529] Jer. li. 44, 45.
[1530] Cheyne, Theol. Rev., XIV. See above, p. [503].