The noise of mankind has become too much. I am losing sleep over their racket. Cut off food supplies to the people! Let the vegetation be too scant for their hunger! Let Adad wipe away his rain. Below let no flood-water flow from the springs. Let wind go, let it strip the ground bare, let clouds gather but not drop rain, let the field yield a diminished harvest, let Nissaba (goddess of Euphrates river) stop up her bosom. No happiness shall come to them.
Ea in story of Atrahasis













