“ Like doves I lament, I satiate myself with sighs.
[The Priest again takes up the Penitent's prayer.]
With pain and ache his soul is full of sighs,
Tears he weeps, he breaks forth into wailing.
↑ The text is published in Rawlinson, iv. (2nd ed.) . 29, No. 5, and transliterated and translated by Zimmern, Busspsalmen, No. 1, p. 9; and see Jastrow, Die Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens, ii., p. 96. ”