Reading akkadian PRayeRs & Hymns An Introduction

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READING AKKADIAN PRAYERS AND HYMNS: AN INTRODUCTION
10. Has kept food distant from my mouth and
11. Has diminished the water which passes through my drinking organ,
12. My song of joy has become wailing and my rejoicing mourning—
13. Stand by me, O great gods, and give heed to my suit,
14. Judge my case and grant me an (oracular) decision!
15. I have made a figurine of my warlock and witch,
16. Of my sorcerer and the woman who instigates sorcery against me,
17. I set (it) at your feet and am now pleading my case:
18. Because she has performed evil against me and has constantly conjured up baseless
charges against me,
19. May she die, but I live.
20. May her witchcraft, her spittle, her enchainment be released.
21. May the tamarisk that is copious of crown clear me,
22. May the date palm that withstands all winds release me,
23. May the soapwort that fills the earth cleanse me,
24. May the cone that is full of seeds release me.
25. In your presence have I now become pure like grass,
26. Clean and innocent like nard.
27. Her spell being that of an evil witch,
28. Her word has been turned back into her mouth and her tongue constricted.
29. On a(c)count of her witchcraft, may the gods of the night strike her,
30. May the three watches of the night release her evil spell.
31. Her mouth be tallow, her tongue be salt:
32. May that which uttered evil against me drip ever away like tallow,
33. May that which performed witchcraft against me dissolve like salt.
34. Her bonds are broken, her deeds nullified;
35. All of her words fill the steppe—
36. By the command pronounced by the gods of the night. Incantation.
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