8. [Let them prepare for converse], at banquets let them sit,

9. [Bread may they eat], wine may they prepare,

10. [For Marduk], their [avenger], let them decree the fate.

11. [Go, Ga]ga, before them stand,

12. [And all that] I tell thee repeat unto them

13. [Anshar], your son, hath sent me,

14. [The purpose of his heart he] hath disclosed to me,

15. [Saying]: Tiâmat, who bore us, hates us,

16. An assemblage is appointed, angrily she rages,

17. Turned to her are the gods, all of them,