He that considereth all their deeds.
—Psalm 33:13-15.
But the knowledge of some Assyrian deities is deeper than that, for the gods read the omens and so learn the fates of men and nations for the years to come:
With Sin in the heavens thou seest through everything.
—Hymn to Nergal No. 1.
Who looks through all signs, introduces omens.
—Hymn to Nusku No. 2.
The god apart from whom in the deep the lot of man is not determined
—Hymn to Marduk No. 3.
While the gods, in some passages, are thought of as simply reading the signs, in others, they actually have in their hands the determination of destinies: