Note 105 — Chapter IV · THE BABYLONIAN-ASSYRIAN CONSCIENCE
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Here are a few lines of a penitential prayer or psalm:
O my god who art angry with me, accept my prayer; * * * * * May my sins be forgiven, my transgressions be wiped out. May the ban be loosened, the chain broken, May the seven winds carry off my sighs. Let me tear away my iniquity, let the birds carry it to heaven; * * * * * May the beasts of the field take it away from me, The flowing waters of the stream wash me clean. Let me be pure like the sheen of gold. Jastrow, The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria (1898), p. 323.