1-8 For the Lord, whose statements are powerful, the profoundly far-sighted knowledgeable judge, who issues decisions, whose utterances are immutable -- Ishme-Dagan, the mighty man with muscles and body of a lion, the strong awe-inspiring youth, the lord whose sweet name is invoked in all the lands, under whose rule the living creatures multiply, makes the black-headed people, its settled people who were entrusted to him for protection, proceed with the firstling-offerings of the land.

9-22 Then Ishme-Dagan the youthful, the mightiest hero among swift athletes, the fearsome runner, who serving night and day never ceases caring for Nibru -- the city where the seed of the numerous people came forth and where life and birth came into existence -- and who provides daily for everything, established justice on a grand scale. The king whose rising is a hurricane, a flood, a wind blowing in its fury, who swinging his wide open arms flashes away into the distance, who is like a fierce lion of the desert which advances in full strength and vigour, who runs fast on the roadway, a horse waving its tail on the highway, who like a young deer ... running, his knees are swift and indefatigable, the servant who provides for the house of the Lord with everything -- he will never stop caring for the shining shrine.

23-29 Then Ishme-Dagan erected a memorial on his precious dais, depicting him as inspiring terror while running in a storm, and made it iridescent with splendour, so that the great Lord of the entire heaven, whose utterance is immutable, should constantly direct His favourable glance at the true shepherd.

30-35 If a king issues evil orders concerning this memorial, and erases its inscription and writes his own name on it; or, because of this curse, he makes another man raise his hand against it, then may God my Lord curse that man! May the Lord of abundance ... him cruelly by withholding abundance from heaven and earth under his rule!