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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...

seems endless, and pain is unbearable, the psalmist protests against the working of divine providence. He complains against God for being indifferent and inactive immeasurably long. Alongside the wrath of God, Luther takes very seriously his indifference. The sense that God has forsaken or abandoned us is more intolerable than the sense of his wrath. Luther wrote: “Then a horrible terror and, as it were, the beginning of damnation is felt, as is written in Ps. 30:7: ‘Thou didst hide Thy face, I was
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