8th kirugu

God has given His orders!

Its jicgijal

247-254 Now see! God has fixed a good day in the land! He has even now ordered the day for Nibru to raise its neck to heaven! He Himself has provided a good day for the E-kur to shine! He Himself has raised up the day for the Ki-ur's magnificent manifestation! He Himself has restored the day for Sumer and Akkad to expand! He Himself has set aside the day for houses to be built and storerooms to be enclosed! He Himself has brought out the day for seeds to sprout and living things to be born! He has brought out the day for building cattle pens and founding sheepfolds!

255-262 The ewes which bore lambs have filled the pens! (1 ms. has instead the line: Ewes have given birth in the folds, their lambs have filled the pens!) The goats which bore kids have filled the folds! The ewes which flocked with their lambs have swelled the sheepfold! The goats which flocked with their kids have caused the pens to be widened! He Himself has set the day for turning destruction to the good! He has ...... the day ...... evil! He has brought in Icme-Dagan as assistance for the day for establishing justice in the land!

9th kirugu

263-274 Although Sumer and Akkad had been desecrated by the foe, afterwards hearts were appeased, spirits soothed! All the angels thus had compassion! They looked upon those sunk in exhaustion and brought them up out of it! They restored your city which had been razed to ruins! God, King of all countries, restored its shining property which had been scattered, which had been devastated! There where the populace rested in the cool after building their nests, in Nibru, the mountain of the greatest blessings, from where they had taken an unfamiliar path -- at God's word the angels, who carry out the decrees of fates, ordered that the temples which they had forsaken and the jewels, put there long ago, which had been carried off by the wind, should all be restored!

275-283 He has established there dining in joy within! God has given the command to Icme-Dagan, His joyous, reverent officiant, who daily serves, to sanctify its food, to purify its water! He has commanded him to purify its defiled sanctuaries! He has put in order its disordered and scattered rites, he has put back in their place the most sacred things, neglected and defiled. He decrees as a fate the offering of daily rations and the grinding up of fine meal and flour. He has decided to make bread plentiful on the table, to make loaves numerous!

10th kirugu

284-296 God, the Lord whose command cannot be altered, prince of all countries, has fixed among the black-headed people, and commanded for their benefit, a time when no one is to speak hostile words to another, when a son is to respect his father, a time to establish humility in the Land, for the inferior to be as important as the mighty, a time when the younger brother, fearing his big brother, is to show humility, a time when the elder child is to treat the younger child reasonably and to pay heed to his words, a time to take neither weak nor strong away into captivity, but to serve with great acts of good, a time to travel the disordered roadways, to extirpate evil growths, a time when anyone is to go where they will, to hurl no insults at one's fellow, (1 ms. has instead the line: a time when anyone is to go where they will, to carry oneself humbly in the plain, to perform no sacrilege,) a time no one is to speak hostile words to another, to perform no sacrilege, (1 ms. has instead the line: a time to go from one's own city to a foreign city, to have no fear on the plain, to perform no sacrilege,) a time to remove bitterness from the Land, to establish light therein, a time when darkness is to be lifted in the Land, so that living things should rejoice.

11th kirugu

297-303 Now, see! After that time, God, the Lord who is full of pity, has been beneficent to His servant who had laid the ...... brick! He put in order again for him the sanctuaries which had been desecrated by the enemy! He sanctified again the defiled rites for him! He purified its ziggurat temple and made it resplendent for him! Within He made abundance plentiful, He filled it with choice beer and syrup! He established there at that time the pleasing of hearts, the appeasing of spirits, the ameliorating of moods!

304-314 Icme-Dagan himself stood in prayer to God and offered salutations! When he had begun the lament and spoken the supplication, the Lord of all countries treated his body with oil of abundance as if it were the sweetest syrup! And his prayer was heard -- God looked upon him with favour, Icme-Dagan whose words bring pleasure to God! The constant servant, with whose thoughts He agrees! Because the humble one prostrated himself in his devotions and served there, because he will entreat Him in supplication and will do obeisance, because he will complete and honour the royal offering and will return, because he will keep watch over everything and will not be negligent, God has promised to Icme-Dagan his dominion of extended years!

315-323 He promised him that he will be a man of pre-eminent kingship! He promised him that he will be a king whose reign is good! He promised him that he shall have the people inhabit safe dwellings! God found agreement in what he had said to the numerous people! On the day for decreeing fates, every part of Sumer and Akkad, among the black-headed people flocking like sheep, among their well-tended people, will praise forever the majesty of the Great Mountain, the weapon of the universe! It is His awe-inspiring way!

12th kirugu