To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant, Marduk. May Nabû and [M]arduk bless the king of the lands, my lord.

Thanks to Bel and Nabû, who gave dominance to the king of the lands, my lord, your servants, whom you took in your hands, are achievers and not d[o-nothin]gs. In three months they have done a j[o]b which would not be done in [thr]ee years, and delivered it to the king, my lord.

But perhaps the king, my lord, will [say]: "He wrote earlier on that the jo[b] will not be don[e]. I sai[d] in order to further the object[ive] of the king, my lord: "[If] you seized [...], the king may achie[ve his] objective." Now yo[ur] gods have acted, and [the king] has ac[hieved] his objective. Moreover, the me[n] who s[aid], "Sipp[ar] is a door [locked] in front of us," have been led into the hands of the king of the lands, [my] lo[rd].

I have heard the magnates say as follows: "We will set up a camp in Dilbat." If they set up a ca[m]p in Dilbat, the people will starve. Also, no caravan will come to them. Rather, their army will go out and plunder a caravan. Let them place the camp within the enclosure of the camp of Babylon of last year, and let boats and water-skins come to them.

There should be 520 (of them) in Cutha. The h[o]rses of the king of the lands should be in hiding and thwart their exit from Babylon.