The afflicted is saved from his affliction, beholding thy face.[24]
The cause of his misfortune, the Babylonian seeks not in natural causes, but in the displeasures of the deity, and this displeasure may be due to sin. To Ninib he prays:
Free me from sin, remit the transgression,[25]
Take the shame away, remove the sin
and this petition is made to the god of whom he says in the ascription:
From him who sin possesses thou dost remove the sin,[26]
The man with whom his god is angry thou art quick to favor.
If, however, the worshipper feels that he has been unjustly treated, then he appeals to the justice of God:
The law of all men thou directest.
Eternally just in Heaven art thou.