Sidebar: From Teshub’s Speech to Megi

But release in well-being the people of Igingallish!
Release also Purra, the captive,
who has served [literally, “fed”] nine kings!

For Igingallish he served three kings;
for Ebla he served six kings.
Now before you, Megi, the tenth, he enters.

If you [plural] decree release,
for Ebla the fate is (this):
if you decree release,
I shall empower your weaponry …

Your weaponry shall beat the opponent,
your arable land shall flourish gloriously.

If you do not decree release,
for Ebla the fate is (this):
on the seventh day I shall come upon you,

And the city Ebla I shall destroy,
Like an uninhabited place I shall make it,

The lower town I shall smash like a cup,
the upper town I shall trample in the dump,
the agora inside it, like a cup,
I shall crush underfoot.

I shall remove that of my urrugi [meaning unknown],
the hearth of the acropolis into the lower city,

that of the lower city into the water,
that of the acropolis into the lower city
I shall cast.