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Fruit for the Soul: Luther on the Lament Psalms is unavailable, but you can change that!

Given a life spent in scholarship and controversy, it is easy to forget how much energy Martin Luther devoted to helping the common person understand and take comfort from God’s word. This commitment extended to even the most challenging of biblical texts, and nowhere is this more apparent than Luther’s work on the lament psalms. Difficult to understand, and perhaps even more difficult to...

enumeration of specific sins.35 For him, sin has a qualitative nature and is not simply a deficit, as if something good is wanting. Luther does not minimize the intensity of sin by relegating sin to merely a “disinclination” and “inhibition concerning the knowledge about God.”36 Rather than a moralistic enumeration of genuine sins, Luther understands sin as it really is, in the sense of its being the condition of fallen humanity at the root of each individual’s being: “The psalm talks about the whole
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