The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh / The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith

by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge

182. O Prince among the gods, thou warrior,

183. How couldst thou, not accepting counsel, make a cyclone?

184. He who is sinful, on him lay his sin,

185. He who transgresseth, on him lay his transgression.

186. But be merciful that [everything] be not destroyed; be long-suffering that [man be not blotted out].

187. Instead of thy making a cyclone,

188. Would that a lion had come and diminished mankind.

189. Instead of thy making a cyclone

19O. Would that a wolf had come and diminished mankind.

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