Hymn of the Righteous Sufferer

Essential Quotes

“I will praise the lord of Wisdom, solicitous god, / Furious in the night, calming in the daylight; / Marduk! Lord of wisdom, solicitous god, / Furious in the night, calming in the daylight.”

“What seems good to one’s self could be an offence to a god, / What in one’s own heart seems abominable, could be good to one’s god / Who could learn the reasoning of the gods in heaven?”

“An evil vapor has blown against me from the ends of the earth.”

“Those endowed with life, who walk upright, / Teeming mankind as many they be, give praise to Marduk!”