—Psalm 76:13.
Since the events of earth are influenced so largely by the earthly sovereign, it is altogether natural that the deity’s determination of destinies should have special application to the case of the king. This makes it easier to understand how the Hebrews looked to Yahwe to set upon the throne of Zion an ideal king. (Psalms 2, 110, and 72.) However magical the Assyrian conception of the determination of fate, the Assyrian deities are in some passages hailed as omniscient:
O lord that knowest fate, who of thyself art glorious in Sumer,
Father Enlil, lord of unerring word,
Father Enlil, whose omniscience is self-created,
Thou possest all wisdom, perfect in power.
—Hymn to Marduk No. 1.
Mighty lord of the gods, all knowing one.
—Hymn to Asshur.
Of open mind, knower of the word, knower of everything.