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 30. trembling and faintness overcome me

31. Thou hearest this

32. thou didst strike him, and to a pillar? thou didst change him,

33. thou didst place him in the midst of the ground

34. he riseth not up, he goeth not

35. And me thou dost love, and like to them thou [wilt serve me].

36. Ishtar on her hearing this,

37. Ishtar was angry and to heaven she ascended,

38. and Ishtar went to the presence of Anu her father,

39. to the presence of Anatu her mother she went and said:

40. Father, Izdubar hates me, and

1. Izdubar despises my beauty,

2. my beauty and my charms.

3. Anu opened his mouth and spake, and

4. said to the princess Ishtar:

5. My daughter thou shalt remove

6. and Izdubar will count thy beauty,

7. thy beauty and thy charms.

8. Ishtar opened her mouth and spake, and

9. said to Anu her father: