Who increases the things that were small,
Whose favorable wind we experienced in sore distress.
Thus let them[762] speak and glorify and be obedient to him.
The gods recall with gratitude Marduk's service in vanquishing Tiâmat. Marduk is also praised for the mercy he showed towards the associates of Tiâmat, whom he merely captured without putting them to death.
As the god of the shining crown in the fourth place, let them [i.e., mankind] exalt him.
The lord of cleansing incantation, the restorer of the dead to life,
Who showed mercy towards the captured gods,
Removed the yoke from the gods who were hostile to him.
A later fancy identified the 'captured gods' with eleven of the heavenly constellations.[763]
Mankind is enjoined not to forget Marduk