This conviction, that Yahwe was the creator of their nation, was in no small degree both cause and result of the powerful national and religious enthusiasm of the Hebrews, and of that mighty religious experience, which finds so full and so free expression in the Hebrew hymns.
The Supreme God as the God of Nature
The Assyrian and Hebrew hymnal literature which praise the deity as the creator of the world, are also concerned with the deity as the god of nature. One prominent function of both Assyrian and Hebrew deity was to maintain the food supply. Assyrian and Hebrew God, give the increase of the soil:
Enlil, who makest to abound pure oil and milk:
Father Enlil, keeper of the plants of the garden;
Keeper of the grain fields are thou.
—Hymn to Enlil.
Lord of the lands, king of heaven and earth, who heaps up abundance,
Lord of the living things, merciful one, increaser of the wheat.
—Hymn to Marduk No. 3.