_ub-su-ukkin-na_(_30_)_ ki di-gal tar-ru_
3. In the Assembly Hall, place where the great judgments are decided,

4. _es-bar-e si-di ba-ra-an-zu-us_(_31_)_-am_
4. Decisions to arrange he caused them to know.

5. _dingir-bi-ne ki-dur ba-ab- gar-ra_(32)
5. These gods he caused to take up there their abode.

6. _sug-lag-bi im-sub-ba aga-bi im-ri-a_
6. Their clean sacrificial food he gave, their crowns he clothed upon
them.

7. _ki-lugal du-azag_(_33_)_ kin-sig_(_34_)_ unu_(_35_)_-gal-ba_
7. In the king's place, the throne room, the _kinsig_ of the vast abode,

8. _tin_(_36_)_ lal bal-bal-e mu-su be-ib-tar-ra_
8. The libation of wine and honey yearly he decreed.

9. _Nibru-(ki) uru gis-gig-dagal-la-bi-su_
9. For Nippur the city whose shadow extends afar

10. _uku-sag-gig-ga ni-im-si-ib-te-en-na_
10. The people, the dark headed, he caused to have reverence.

11. _ki-dur-ba gu-ni a-gim_(_37_)_ ba-ra-an-sub_
11. But its habitations he cursed ...

12. _ab sig-gan-dug-ga-gim e-ne sig-gan-ba-ra-an-dug_
12. Like scattered cows he scattered them.

13. _uru sag-bi er-gig sig- bi_
13. The city's interior is filled with weeping,

14. _en-na_(_38_)_ dam_(_39_)_ dingir ga-sa-an-bi li-bi nu-tar-ri_(40)
14. While the consort, its divine queen, is not solicitous for her.

15. _e-gu-la za-pa-ag ib-zu-a-bi_
15. The great house which knew the cry of multitudes,

16. _e-ri-a-sud-gim galu nu-un-tur-tur_
16. Like a vast building in ruins men enter not.

17. _Nibru-(ki) uru ki ligir-ligir-gal-gal-e-ne
su-im-ma-an-HA_(_41_)_-es-am_
17. In Nippur, the city where great princes were prosperous,

18. _a-na-as u-gu i-ni-in-de-es_(42)
18. Why have they fled?

19. _uku sag-gig gu-sa-gi-a_(_43_)_ udu-gim be-ib-?_(_44_)_-a_
19. The people, the dark headed, all of them like sheep....

20. _e(?)-en-su KAK-RU_(_45_)_ er a-nir sag PA-HI-BAD-a_
20. How long shall loud crying(?), weeping and wailing _distress_ (?) the
heart?

21. _en-su bar_(_46_)_ be-ib- ... ul_
21. How long shall the soul be terrified?

22. _sag nu-ub-si-tug-e_
22. And the heart repose not?

23. _su__ub __su__a-la mu-un-tuk-a-ri_(47)
23. To the drum and cymbals I sing.

24. ... _gig-ga a-a na_....
24. ... sorrowfully(?)....

25. ... _sig ... ne ba-dur-ru-ne-es_
25. ... _brick_ ... they dwell.

26. ... _gar-ra-bi er-su ba-ab-bi-ne_
26. ... in tears they speak.

27. ... _sub-ba tur-ru-ba-ne_
27. ... are made small.

28.