CTN 4, 201 [Ludlul 1]

(o 1) [...] lord of wisdom, thoughtful god, [...] calming [...].

(o 3) [...] lord of wisdom, thoughtful god, [...] calming (by) daytime.

(o 5) [...] his fury is a storm, a deserted land; (yet) [...] his strength is sweet (like) a morning breeze.

(o 7) His anger (has) no equal, his turmoil is flood; (yet) his heart is favourable, his mind is merciful.

(o 9) The weight of whose hand the heavens can not bear; (even if) his gentle palm helps the dead.

(o 11) Marduk, the weight of whose hand the heavens can not bear; (even if) his gentle palm helps the dead.

(o 13) In (his) rage, graves are exposed then he (also) raises the fallen one from the disaster.

(o 15) He frowns and (both) the tutelary deity and the protective deity abandon (the man); he gazes and his (personal) god returns to the one whom he pushed away.

(o 17) His punishment is forthwith dangerous ...; (yet) he is merciful, and quickly becomes like a mother.

(o 19) He hurries to care for his beloved, and, like a cow (for its) calf, he searches out after him constantly.

(o 21) His beatings are barbed: they pierce the body; (yet) his bandages are soothing: they heal death (lit. fate).

(o 23) When he speaks, he endows (people) with sin; (yet) on his day of justice, obligations and faults are absolved.

(o 25) It is he who afflicts (people) with the utukku-demon of shivering; he, with his spells, (who) drives off chills and terror.

(o 27) He is the one who reduces Adad's storm and Erra's blow.

(o 28) He is the one who reconciles the infuriated gods (and) [...].

(o 29) He is the lord (who) oversees [...] of the gods.

(o 30) There is none [...] whose behaviour he does not know.

(o 31) Marduk oversees everything in the god's heart.

(o 32) No other god comprehends his intention.

(o 33) His heart is as merciful as his hand is heavy.

(o 34) His mind is as healing as his weapons are murderous.

(o 35) (For) the one who (is) against his will, who may cool down his blow?

(o 36) Without his will, which [...] may become light?

(o 37) Let me proclaim his fury, (me) who ate [...] like a fish.

(o 38) Quickly, he is favourable to me as he heals [...].

(o 39) Let me teach the people [...] is close.

(o 40) His favourable understanding [...] the fault.

(o 41) From the days Bel [...] ... [...] and the hero Marduk [...], my (own) god rejected me; my (own) goddess became inactive [...] the protective deity of welfare [...]; my (own) tutelary deity [...].

(o 47) [...]

(o 48) My rank [...]

(o 49) [...] have been laid upon me.

(o 50) I was expelled (from) my house [...];

(o 51) My omens are obscure [...];

(o 52) signs of the diviner and ... [...];

(o 53) [...] the rumour of the street ... [...].

(o 54) (When) I sleep at night [...].

(o 55) (As for) the king, flesh of the god [...] he binds his heart [...].

(o 57) The attendants [...] denigrating talk [...]; they are gathering together [...].

(o 59) If the first one (says): "His life [...]", the second says: "I will remove [...]";

(o 61) thus the third: "[...] his appointment";

(o 62) the fourth [...] "I will enter his house";

(o 63) the fifth is inciting fifty (against me);

(o 64) [...] and the seventh will follow like his protective deity.

(o 65) They have gathered around me; their band is a knot of seven.

(o 66) As merciless as a storm, similar to utukku-demons [...]

(o 67) [...] their flesh is one and they are (all) set with (one) mouth.

(o 68) They have become wild and they are burning like fire.

(r 1) They persuaded ... (and) obstacles against me.

(r 2) They [...] my noble mouth as with a bridle.

(r 3) My lips that had prattled [...].

(r 4) My sonorous roarings [...] silently.

(r 5) (Once) so high, my head bowed down [...].

(r 6) My heart, (once) so steady, [...] in terror.

(r 7) (Once) so wide, my chest [...] the youngest.

(r 8) My arms, (once) far-reaching, are (now) covered [...].

(r 9) I, who had gone about like a lord [...].

(r 10) I had been splendid but I turned [...].

(r 11) Within my large family [...].

(r 12) I go along the street [...].

(r 13) I enter the palace [...].

(r 14) My city [...] like my enemy.

(r 15) As if it were hostile [...].

(r 16) To [...]

(r 17) To [...]

(r 18) [...] ... [...]

(r 24) [...] place me (as) its (own) flesh [...]

(r 25) For the one who speaks kindly of me, [...] will open for him; the eloquent one who slanders at me will be placed [...].

(r 27) As for the one who talks (with) maliciousness of me, the god is his helper.

(r 28) The one who says: "It is enough!", his haste [...].

(r 29) (For) the one who does not help, life becomes like (that of) a protective deity.

(r 30) I have neither acquired someone at my side, nor seen a merciful one.

(r 31) To the riffraff, they distribute all that was mine.

(r 32) They have blocked up the mouth of my canal with silt.

(r 33) In my meadows, they have driven away the work song.

(r 34) Like the city of my enemy, they put silence (upon my) my city.

(r 35) They let another take my office and they appointed a stranger for my rites.

(r 37) Days of depression;, nights of wailing; months of anxious silence, years of misery.

(r 39) All day long, I indeed moaned like a dove. Like a singer I made the lamentations loud.

(r 41) My eyes were always bursting into tears; my cheeks were burning with tears as if I was trampled.

(r 43) Fear in my heart has turned my face black; terror and panic have turned my skin pallid.

(r 45) [...] of my heart have shaken in constant trembling.

(r 46) [...] and like a burning fire.

(r 47) Words of my prayer [...] ... [...] ?ever-ignited?.

(r 48) [...] ... my supplication was strife.

(r 49) [...] my words were as difficult as the dark.

(r 50) I speak [...] (but) my conversation is an obstacle.

(r 51) As if, in daytime, good fortune will come straight to me, the moon will appear (and) my sun will shine.

(r 53) One year and the next, my appointed time has passed.

(r 54) Tablet 1, "Let me praise the lord of [...]".