SBH 14 [Liturgy]

According to the word of Bel and ..., as much as I do with (these) hands, may it be well

(Sum) The city did not ... the herald, it did not ... itself (Akk) The city that did not send its herald around and was profoundly silent itself

It did not ..., the city did not ... the herald

No one passed through (the city), the young man passed by no one else

He destroyed your city, they destroyed your people

He burned the great doors and wall

(Sum) He made the just man abandon his son (Akk) You made the just man outstretch a hand toward his son

(Sum) (He used) the širsaŋ lament to halt running in the plain (Akk) (He used) the "first lament" to restrain the running (into?) the temple

The lord shouted out(?) the širsaŋ lament in the plain

The lord of the lands, the important one, the lord of the lands

The lord of the lands, the one with a profound mind and a true utterance

The important one, the important one, the širsaŋ lament approaches

It cannot be changed, his speech cannot be changed

The important one, Enlil, the word in his mouth cannot be changed

(Sum) My(?) people, set it up, may you set up a lamentation (for me) (Akk) May my(?) people hurry to me and may a taqribtu lament be set up

At the cella, my(?) people, set it up, may you set up a lamentation (for me)

(Sum) Enlil, they did (this) to completion thusly in the Ekur (Akk) Enlil, they changed (this) thusly for the Ekur

(Sum) Enlil, they did (this) to completion thusly in the Ki'ur (Akk) Enlil, they changed (this) thusly for the Ki'ur

Ninmah, they did (this) to completion thusly at Keš

But to the lord, the song was not sweet, the lament was not good

But to Enlil, the song was not sweet, the lament was not good

... Enlil, he does set aside(?) ..., he goes forth

The kurŋara priest with the life-consuming dagger (do not make) his heart spare

(Sum) May you set up a lament in the Ekur, may you set up a lament (Akk) May a taqribtu lament be set up for the Ekur, may a taqribtu lament be set up

..., may you set up a lament

..., may you set up a lament

..., may you set up a lament

A storm, behind it ..., who could know its midst?

The storm (is) the word of An, the word of Enlil

(Sum) The storm (is) the angry heart of great An (Akk) The storm (is) the anger of the heart of great An

(Sum) The storm (is) the evil heart of Enlil (Akk) The storm (is) the heart of An that engenders evil

(His) word above makes the heavens tremble

(His) word below shakes the earth

His word blocks/destroys (even) the Anuna

(His word) has no diviner, it has no incantation priest

(His word) is a flood with nothing to withstand it

(His word) makes heaven tremble and the earth shake

His word is a reed mat that a mother wraps her (dead) child with

(His word) kills/bends over the enbar reeds/reed bed in their pond

(His word) drowns the harvest on its stalk

The word of the lord is a rising flood that sweeps (up to?) the nose

(His word) is a flood that snaps apart the quay

(His word) cuts down the great mes trees

(His word is) a storm that renders (settlements)into ruin heaps at (his?) disposal

The word of Enlil is flitting about, no one (can) see it

Lord of the lands, ...

Lord whose utterance is just, ...

Enlil, father of the land, ...

Shepherd of the black-headed, ...

The one who sees himself, ...

Wild bull who goes among his army, ...

The one who sleeps falsely, ...

Lord Enki, ...

Hero Asalluhi, ...

Lord Enbilulu, ...

Hero Mudugašea, ...

Lord Dikudmah, ...

You make that which you have ordered exceed

The place that you curse, you finish

The shepherd that does bend over brought a sheep

The shepherd does not sleep, because (he is) on guard

Why is the recumbent bull not rising?

... extract of the balaŋ composition ame baranara, unfinished

Extracted for singing: imgida of Bēl-ana-kittišu

Son of Mardaya, son of Miṣiraya. Fingernail of

Bēl-uballiṭsu, his son, the junior lagar priest

of Marduk. Babylon, month of Kislimu

164th year. Alexander, the king,

Who reveres Marduk and Zarpanitu

..., Tašmetu, and Nanaya of the Ezida temple

... the fingernail is not ...