With fifty names, the great gods
According to their fifty names, proclaimed the supremacy of his course.
The compiler has added to the epic what Delitzsch appropriately designates an 'epilogue,'—a declaration of affection for Marduk. The epilogue consists of three stanzas. All mankind—royalty and subjects—are called upon to bear in mind Marduk's glorious deeds, achieved for the benefit of the world.
Let the wise and intelligent together ponder over it.
Let the father relate it and teach it to his son.[772]
To leader and shepherd[773] be it told.
Let all rejoice in the lord of gods, Marduk
That he may cause his land to prosper and grant it peace.
His word is firm, his order irrevocable.
What issues from his mouth, no god can alter.