Knowing no care,

They grind the land like corn;

Knowing no mercy,

They rage against mankind:

They spill their blood like rain,

Devouring their flesh (and) sucking their veins.

Where the images of the gods are, there they quake

In the temple of Nabu, who fertiliseth the shoots of wheat.

They are demons full of violence

Ceaselessly devouring blood.