STT 1, 032 [Ludlul 1]

(o 1') Quickly, he is favourable to me as [...]

(o 2') Let me teach the people [...] is close.

(o 3') His favourable understanding [...].

(o 4') From the day the Lord [...] and the hero Bel got angry [...]

(o 6') my (own) god rejected me, (then) disappeared [...]; my (own) goddess became inactive (and) went away [...]; the protective deity of welfare, who [...] at my side split away; my own tutelary deity got scared and sought another one.

(o 10') My dignity has been taken away, my virility has been veiled; my rank has been cut off, my protection has been torn away.

(o 12') Signs of terror have been laid upon me;

(o 13') I was expelled from my house, I wandered outside;

(o 14') my omens are obscure, they are contradictory for ever;

(o 15') my course has not been decided by the signs of the diviner or the dream interpreter.

(o 16') According to the rumour of the street, my reputation is bad.

(o 17') (When) I sleep at night, my dream is terrifying.

(o 18') (As for) the king, flesh of the gods, sun of his people: his heart has been bound and the dispelling (of demons) has become evil.

(o 20') The attendants keep exchanging denigrating talk against me; they are gathering together and they point at (me with) maliciousness.

(o 22') If the first one (says): "I will make him spill his life", the second says: "I removed (him) from his office";

(o 24') thus the third: "I will grab his appointment";

(o 25') "I will enter his house" swears the fourth;

(o 26') the fifth is inciting fifty (against) me;

(o 27') the sixth and the seventh will follow like his protective deity.

(o 28') They have gathered around me: their band is a knot of 7.

(o 29') As merciless as a storm, similar to utukku-demons, [...] their flesh is one and they are (all) set with (one) mouth.

(o 31') [...] they became wild against me and they were burning like fire.

(o 32') They persuaded obstacles [...] against me.

(o 33') They have muzzled [...] as with a bridle.

(o 34') [...] had prattled; I became like a deaf man.

(o 35') [...] fled silently.

(r 1) (Once) so high, my head bowed down to the ground;

(r 2) My heart, (once) so steady, is shaken in terror;

(r 3) (Once) so wide, my chest ... by the youngest;

(r 4) My arms, (once) far-reaching, are (now) ... and grasp each other;

(r 5) I, who had gone about like a lord, learnt to slink.

(r 6) I had been splendid, but I turned into a slave.

(r 7) Within my large family, I have become alone.

(r 8) (When) I go along the street, fingers point (at me).

(r 9) (When) I enter the palace, eyes squint (at me).

(r 10) My (own) city frowns at me like my enemy.

(r 11) My (own) country is ferocious (against me) as if it were hostile.

(r 12) My (own) brother has turned into a stranger.

(r 13) My (own) friend has turned into a foe and a demon.

(r 14) A furious companion denounced me.

(r 15) My employees defile me constantly with their weapons.

(r 16) My (formerly) friendly colleagues slander my life.

(r 17) My (own) slave cursed me, openly, in the assembly; my (own) maid spoke slander of me in front of the common people.

(r 19) (When) he sees me, (my) acquaintance take refuge on the side.

(r 20) My (own) family does not place me (as) its (own) flesh.

(r 21) As for the one who speaks kindly of me, a trap will open for him; the eloquent one who slanders me will be placed at the top.

(r 23) (As for) the one who talks (with) maliciousness of me, the god is his helper.

(r 24) The one who says "it is enough!", his haste is death;

(r 25) (For) the one who (provides) no assistance life becomes like (that of) a protective deity.

(r 26) I have neither acquired someone at my side, nor seen a merciful one.

(r 27) To the riffraff, they distributed all that was mine.

(r 28) They blocked up the mouth of my canal with silt.

(r 29) In my meadows, they drove away the work song.

(r 30) Like the city of my enemy, they put silence (in my) city.

(r 31) They let another take my office [...]; they appointed a stranger [...].