1-8 August chariot! The Lord of wisdom ordered your construction in the Great House, His exalted shrine. He instructed Ishme-Dagan, the wise shepherd called by an auspicious name, born from a beautiful mother's womb, the adviser of the Land, to make your holy and pure ordinances manifest. He set to work on you and worked without stopping. He decorated you with ... and lapis lazuli. He placed you.

9-18 Your two ... are something to be marvelled at. Your furnishings are most outstanding, like a forest of aromatic cedars. Your pole is a field with open furrows, an abundance of dappled grain. Your ... is a thick cloud covering the ... of heaven all over. Your yoke is a huge neck-stock from which there is no escape, which clamps down the evildoer. Your rope-fastened pegs are laid down as a huge net spanning heaven and earth.

19-21 Your side-poles are ... subduing the hostile countries.

28-40 Your mudguard is the sun ... the horizon. The front of your mudguard is the ornament of ... Your implements are the moon which fills the midst of heaven with delight. Your axle is ... which ... a flood. Your rope-box is a whip ... which rouses up the donkeys. Your pole-pin is a huge open battle-net which does not let the evildoer escape. Your farings are the exalted princely powers sought out with great care. Your platform is warriors fiercely attacking each other. Your side beams are strong breeding bulls carrying a heavy load. Your cross-beams are young men. Your side-boards are ... Your foot-board is ... Your seat ...

62-64 At that time Ishme-Dagan decorated the chariot with silver, gold, and lapis lazuli for his Lord.

66-81 His great festival having been performed perfectly, the Lord stepped onto the chariot. He was followed by the mighty hero and by the angels who are with Him. The chariot shimmers like lightning, its rumbling noise is sweet. His donkeys are harnessed to the yoke. The Lord came out on His august votive chariot radiantly. The hero, the support of his father, made the way pleasant. Having reached the place which gladdens the soul, where the seed is blessed, the Lord stepped down and established a feast.

82-87 After you have taken out the implements to the fields, let the hoe and the plough, the implements of field workers, rival each other before you. The king has paid attention to the Lord's instructions: the hero has prepared the holy plough, has ploughed the fertile fields and, to see that the silos and granaries will be piled up high, he has sown with good seed.

88-95 The young hero then proudly enters the resplendent Great House, and prays to the Lord: "Please, look with favour on Ishme-Dagan, the accomplished shepherd, who is at Your service in the dining-hall; on the king who has built You the chariot! May the days of delight and sweetness last long for him!"