The man with whom his [guardian] god is angry thou art quick to favor.
Just as there were few references in the biblical hymns to Yahwe as healing sickness, so there are astonishingly few references to him as forgiving sin. In fact there are but two, and they are both found in an individual hymn:
Who forgiveth all thy iniquities,
Who healeth all thy diseases.
—Psalm 103:3.
As far as the East is from the West,
So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
—Psalm 103:12.
The mercy of the God is sometimes attested by the titles which he bears. Both in the Assyrian and the biblical hymns, the deity is called Shepherd. In the Assyrian hymns, the god is shepherd not only of the Assyrians, but of all peoples and of all living things:
Father Enlil, shepherd of the dark headed people.