Sumerian Hymns and Prayers to God Nin-Ib from the Temple Library of Nippur

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الصفحة 66 - The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
الصفحة 66 - Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. Thou brakest the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
الصفحة 81 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
الصفحة 66 - Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
الصفحة 38 - Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear: Should you not fear me?
الصفحة 66 - Art thou not the same, that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep ? That made the depths of the sea a...
الصفحة 28 - The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air. The astronomer will no longer look up to the stars. He will look out from them upon the universe, and the florist will find his flower before he beholds its seed.
الصفحة 81 - If he lose an ox or sheep which is given to him, he shall restore to their owner ox for ox, sheep for sheep.1 264.
الصفحة 38 - Pinches" (see above, p. 34, note 5) the "star of Marduk" belongs (as third) to the month Addar. Hence, if the "star of Marduk " is late in its appearance, ie, if it becomes visible in the first month (instead of the twelfth of the preceding year) and at the same time forms a "combination" with the planet GUD.l'D, then and then only — so the explanation says — it is a propitious New- Year's star.
الصفحة 87 - N'J, n to tuni something away from (to), to chase, drive it out of (to) something " or = diku, "to scare, to frighten." For the idea cf. also .4. SKT, p. 71 : 13, 14, mas-gak ne-ib-sdr-ri = sa-bi-ta u-kas-sa-ad (pursues), NAM-SAB-a ab-zi(g)-zi(g} = e-ri-ba i-di-ik-ki. Notice here the contrast in the nature of NIN-IB: he chases away or frightens, but also takes care! III. DESCRIPTION OF TABLETS. ABBREVIATIONS. CBM, Catalogue of the Babylonian Museum, University of Pennsylvania, prepared by Professor...

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