“... 50:1-4. sun god as judge imagery. There is a drawing at the top of the seven-foot-high diorite pillar containing a copy of Hammurabi’s law code. It depicts the Babylonian sun god Shamash seated on his throne with Hammurabi standing before him. In the prologue that follows, the king accepts the responsibility “to make justice prevail in the land” and “to rise like Shamash over all humankind.” He becomes the god’s judicial representative for the Babylonian empire. Shamash’s role as divine judge is also found in Akkadian prayers for forgiveness. The Egyptian Hymn to the Aten, composed for the court of Pharaoh Akhenaten in the fourteenth century B.C., contains creation imagery very similar to that in this psalm. This is especially the case with regard to a sense of order and universality: “Your glory shines high above the land; your rays enrich the land you have created.” See the comment on God as judge in the sidebar on common concepts in Psalms. ...”