Scholarship on Literary text: T-S Ar.37.99

Translated by Gabriel Wasserman.

Time to rebuke the beast of the forest, to whirl it up in a storm and whirlwind, for it has chewed up the vine out of the forest. So may [God] quarantine it with a storm, by the hand of the ruddy one, and the hairy man, because it has oppressed [Israel], the son beloved since youth. Destroy its sense, and may it be like a fool! And may Assyria overtake it, and pitch a pavilion within its borders, and plunder all its tents, so all its deities will be put to shame, and all its idols will be put to embarrassment. May [Assyria] bring sudden terror to it, and make it the estate of desert owls and hedgehogs, and foil its deeds, and exterminate all its troops, and cast it into the heart of the sea, and humiliate it down to the depths, and bring it darkness with a line of chaos, and double [the darkness] with stones of void. And some small respite will be given to the holy people. For Assyria will allow them to establish the holy Temple, and there they will build the holy altar, and offer upon it holy sacrifices. But they will not have the chance to firmly set up the holy mountain, for the shoot has not yet gone forth from the holy stock.