SEVENTH TABLET.
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Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
107. Verily, he holdeth the beginning and the end of them,51 verily ...
108. Saying, "He who entered into the middle of Tiâmat resteth not;
109. "His name shall be 'Nibiru' the seizer of the middle.
110. "He shall set the courses of the stars of the heavens,
111. "He shall herd together the whole company of the gods like sheep.
112. "He shall [ever] take Tiâmat captive, he shall slit up her treasure (variant, life), he shall disembowel her."52
113. Among the men who are to come after a lapse of time,
114. Let [these words] be heard without ceasing, may they reign to all eternity,
115. Because he made the [heavenly] places and moulded the stable [earth].
116. Father Bel proclaimed his name, "Lord of the Lands."
117. All the Igigi repeated the title.
118. Ea heard and his liver rejoiced,
119. Saying, "He whose title hath rejoiced his fathers
120. "Shall be even as I am; his name shall be Ea.
121. "He shall dispose of all the magical benefits of my rites,
122. "He shall make to have effect my instructions."
123. By the title of "Fifty times" the great gods
124. Proclaimed his names fifty times, they magnified his going.