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The commentaries contained in this volume show conclusively that Luther achieved great things in the field of Biblical scholarship. Luther’s language is simple and always to the point. He curries to no one’s favor as he goes to the heart of the sixteen psalms expounded in this volume. His attention to the texts is “personal, devotional, political, exegetical, polemical—all at the same time,”...

4. For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me. This is due to an evil conscience, which envisions only God’s wrath, as if He were standing over me with a club; hence there can be no peace of heart. My strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah. For this burden causes heart, courage, and mind to dry up, with the result that man fails also in body. 5. I acknowledged my sin to Thee. Now I see that there is nothing better than to confess before Thee that there is only sin in me and nothing
Volume 14, Pages 150–151