12-21 The pursuers released the woman, and she handed over Dumuzid to them in exchange for herself. "As for the lad, we will put his feet in foot stocks. As for the lad, we will put his hands in hand stocks: we will put his neck in neck stocks." Copper pins, nails and pokers were raised to his face. They sharpened their large copper axes. As for the lad, they stood him up, they sat him down. "Let us remove his garment, let us make him stand." As for the lad, they bound his arms, they did evil to him. They covered his face with his own garment.

22-32 The lad raised his hands heavenward to God: "O God, I am Your servant, I am a youth. Do You recognize me? My wife descended to the realm of the dead. Because she descended to the realm of the dead, it was me that she was to hand over as a substitute. O God, You are a just Judge, don't disappoint me! Change my hands, alter my appearance, so that I may escape the clutches of my pursuers! Don't let them seize me! Like a snake that slithers across the meadows and mountains, let me escape alive to the dwelling of my sister Jectin-ana."

33-46 God accepted his tears. He changed his hands, He altered his appearance. Then like a snake that slithers across the meadows and mountains, like a soaring falcon that can swoop down on a bird, Dumuzid escaped alive to the dwelling of his sister Jectin-ana. Jectin-ana looked at her brother. She wept and recited a lament of misfortune for the unfortunate lad: "O my brother! O my brother, lad who has not fulfilled those days! O my brother, shepherd Ama-ucumgal-ana, lad who has not fulfilled those days and years! O my brother, lad who has no wife, who has no children! O my brother, lad who has no friend, who has no companion! O my brother, the lad who is not a comfort to his mother!"

47-56 The pursuers go hither and thither searching for Dumuzid. The small ones say to the big ones: "We have no mother; we have no father or mother, sister or brother, wife or children. When the earth was established, you were there, at a man's side like a reed enclosure. We are never kind, we do not know good from evil. Who has ever seen a man, without a family, all alone, escape with his life? We shall go neither to the dwelling of his friend nor to the dwelling of his in-laws. Rather, for the shepherd let us go to the dwelling of Jectin-ana." The pursuers clap their hands and begin to seek him out.

57-64 Jectin-ana had barely finished that lament when the pursuers arrived at her dwelling. "Show us where your brother is," they said to her. But she spoke not a word to them. They afflicted her loins with a skin disease, but she spoke not a word to them. They scratched her face, but she spoke not a word to them. They tore the skin of her buttocks, but she spoke not a word to them. They poured tar in her lap, but she spoke not a word to them. So they could not find Dumuzid at the house of Jectin-ana.

65-73 The small ones said to the big ones: "Come on, let's go to the holy sheepfold!" There at the holy sheepfold they caught Dumuzid. They went hither and thither until they caught him. They searched for him until he was seen. The axe was wielded against the lad who had no family. They sharpened their daggers, they smashed his hut. His sister wandered about the city like a bird because of her brother: "My brother, let me take the great misfortune, come, let me take it."