42. I.e., "to cause the gods to be content,"
43. Literally "they (indefinite) opposed me."
44. See Cuneiform Texts, Part XXIV, Plate 50, where it is said that the god Sin is "Marduk, who maketh bright the night."
45. Lines 44 and 45 announce Marduk's determination to build Babylon.
46. This is the word commonly used for "temple-tower." The famous ziggurat of E-Sagila here mentioned was built in Seven Stages or Steps, each probably having its own distinctive colour. It was destroyed probably soon after the capture of Babylon by Cyrus (539 B.C.) and when Alexander the Great reached Babylon he found it ruins.