"O King of vast unnumbered countries, hear!
Thine enemy Khum-baba do not fear,
My hands will waft the winds for thee.
Thus I reveal!
Khum-baba falls! thine enemy!
Nor aught conceal.

"The harvest month[6] propitious shines,
Array great Accad's battle lines!
Before thy feet thy Queen descends,
Before thy will thine Ishtar bends,
To fight thine enemy,
To war I go with thee!
My word is spoken, thou hast heard,
For thee, my favor thou hast stirred.
As I am Ishtar of mine Or divine,
Thine enemy shall fall! Be glory thine!

"Before mine Izdubar I go,
And at thy side direct thy blow.
I go with thee, fear not, my King,
For every doubt and fear, I bring
Relief, to thy heart rest!
Of Sars, I love thee best!"

[Footnote 1: The account given by Herodotus of the worship of Beltis or
Ishtar, if true (see Herodotus, i. 199), was one of the darkest features
of Babylonian religion. It is probable that the first intention was only
to represent love as heaven-born, and that it afterward became sensual in
the time of Herodotus. (See Sayce's edition Smith's "C.A. of Gen.," p.