SBH 01 [Liturgy]

That which is founded like a storm, its center cannot be found

According to the word of Bel and my lady, may it be well

It is a storm touching the earth, its center cannot be found

His word is a storm touching the earth, its center cannot be found

The word of greatest An is a storm touching the earth, its center cannot be found

The word of Enlil is a storm touching the earth, its center cannot be found

The word of Enki is a storm touching the earth, its center cannot be found

The word of Asalluhi is a storm touching the earth, its center cannot be found

The word of Enbilulu is a storm touching the earth, its center cannot be found

The word of Mudugašea is a storm touching the earth, its center cannot be found

The word of Šiddukišara is a storm touching the earth, its center cannot be found

The word of Dikudmah is a storm touching the earth, its center cannot be found

His word above makes the heavens tremble

His word below shakes the earth

(Sum) His word blocks/destroys (even) the Anuna (Akk) that (by) which the Anuna are confined (variant:) that of destruction

His word has no diviner, it has no incantation priest (Akk) His word has no diviner, it has no dream interpreter

His word is a flood with nothing to withstand it

His word makes heaven tremble and the earth shake

(Sum) His word is a reed mat that a mother wraps her (dead) child with (Akk) His word is like a reed mat that a mother buries a daughter with

(Sum) The word of the lord kills/bends over the enbar reeds/reed bed in their pond (Akk) The word of the lord kills the reed bed in its marsh

(Sum) The word of Asalluhi drowns the harvest on its stalk (Akk) The word of Marduk drowns the harvest in its season

(Sum) The word of the lord is a rising flood that gathers up to(?) the nose (Akk) The word of the lord is a rising flood that overwhelms (up to?) the nose

(Sum) The word of Asalluhi is a flood that snaps apart the quay (Akk) The word of Marduk is a breach that breaks the quay

His word cuts down the great mes trees

(Sum) His word is a storm that renders (settlements)into ruin heaps at his disposal(?) (Akk) His word is a storm that turns everything into ruin heaps (var. the shore of all of the lands)

(Sum) The word of Enlil is flitting about, no one (can) see it (Akk) The word of Enlil flits about: the eye cannot see it (var. The word of Enlil is a pitfall that cannot be seen)

(Sum) His word, alas, his word (Akk) He of the mountains, his word

(Sum) His word, the important one, alas, his word

Greatest An, alas, his word

Enlil, alas, his word

Enki, alas, his word

Hero Asalluhi, alas, his word

Lord Enbilulu, the heir of of Enki, alas, his word

Mudugašea, alas, his word

Nabû, the heir of the Esaŋila temple, alas, his word

Lord Dikudmah, alas, his word

(Sum) If I bring his word to a diviner, the diviner is false (Akk) If his word is brought to a diviner, that diviner is false

(Sum) If I bring his word to an incantation priest, the incantation priest is false (Akk) If his word is brought to a dream interpreter, that dream interpreter is false

(Sum) His word makes the young man cry in woe and that young man moans (Akk) His word is uttered to the young man in woe and that young man moans

His word makes the young woman cry out, "Woe!", that young woman moans

(Sum) His word, going in the manner of small ones, destroys the mountains (Akk) His word, softly when it moves, destroys the land

(Sum) His word, going in the manner of great ones, strikes down the house (Akk) His word, greatly when it moves, destroys houses

His word is a covered fermentation vat: who can know its insides? (Akk var.) His word, like something covered, who can know its insides?

The inside of his word is unknown, its outside is trampling (Akk) The inside of his word are unknown, the outside tramples down

(Sum) The outside of the word is unknown; its inside is trampling (Akk) The outside of his word are unknown, it tramples down the environs/fields

My roots are torn out, my thickets are defoliated

(Sum) The Anuna alter my decreed me (Akk) The Anunnaki change my parṣu by legal decision

(Sum) The ravens defoliate my thicket (Akk) His ravens defoliate the thicket

(Sum) Lord of the lands, like a dead? man, you do not ... (Akk) Lord of the lands, like humanity, you do not ...

Like what is in my stomach, you do not ...

You cut off food to my stomach/innards

(Sum) The rage(?) of my heart ... before you (Akk) The mood of my heart ...

He does not possess it for you, he does not possess destruction for you

(Sum) Like a single planted reed, the important one shakes me like a single planted reed (Akk) Like a single reed, the important one shakes me like a single reed

The important one, the lord of the lands

The one profound of mind, the one of the true word

The one whose speech cannot be changed

Enlil, the one whose word cannot be changed in his mouth

(Sum) Planted like the šub grass, planted like the numun grass (Akk) He made me like the šuppatu grass, he made me like the elpetu grass

(Sum) Planted like a single poplar tree on the riverbank (Akk) He made me like a single poplar tree on the riverbank

(Sum) Planted like the manu tree on dry land (Akk) He made me like the ēru tree on dry land

(Sum) Like a single tamarisk tree planted in a storm (Akk) Like a single tamarisk tree ... in a storm

(Sum) The important one shakes me like a single planted reed (Akk) The important one shakes me like a single reed

Towards you word, towards your word, the "alas" of the temple towards your word

75 lines, first tablet of the balaŋ composition udam ki amus ...

... written and collated? like its original, ..., tablet of Libluṭ, son of Bēl-šuma-iškun

son of Marduk-šuma-iddin, son of ...

Antiochus, the king