The Bible in a Year

Psalms

Psalms 48 to 55
Read this coming week:
Aug 22 Job 11‐12, Ps 48, Luke 12
24 Job 15‐16, Ps 50, Luke 14 Aug
20‐21, Ps 52, Luke 16 Aug 27 Job
Ps 54, Luke 18 Aug 29 Job 27‐28,
Aug 23 Job 13‐14, Ps 49, Luke 13 Aug
25 Job 17‐19, Ps 51, Luke 15 Aug 26 Job
22‐23, Ps 53, Luke 17 Aug 28 Job 24‐26,
Ps 55, Luke 19

Reading Questions
For next week you’re reading Psalms 48 to 55. Answer
the following:
• Only using Psalm 48, what do you know about
Zion?
• Why is it pointless to worry according to Psalm
49?
• What is/isn’t Israel doing in Psalm 50 that angers
God?
• According to Psalm 51, against whom was the sin
that David committed with Bathsheba?
 • Where is the righteous “green olive tree” planted
in 52?
• What does a fool say in his heart? (53)
• Who is besieging David that he cries out to God in
54?
• Why does David want to be a dove in 55?
Luther and the Psalms
Martin Luther was a man of many moods and emotions.
If you were embroiled in the same spiritual and earthly
battles as he was, you would probably be a little moody
yourself. Yet Luther’s moods were not always negative,
they ran the full spectrum of emotion just like your
emotions run a full spectrum.

It was because he recognized the power of human

emotion that Luther loved the Psalms. He said that
within the Book of the Psalms, a person could find every
emotion that a human could feel. If you consider this as
you’re reading through the Psalms, you find a wealth of
emotions within the 150 psalms – from jealousy, to
anger, to joy, and contentment.

As you read through the Psalms this week, consider

writing a little notation in the margin of your Bible when
you isolate a particular emotion that you recognize. It
could surprise you as you read through these psalms to
find the wealth of the human experience in them. That
human experience, including all of its emotions, were
felt and lived out by Christ our Savior who was the only
perfect sinless – yet still emotional – human being to
ever walk the earth. Because He was sinless in the
midst of His emotions, He then could become the
ransom for our sins.
Please don’t throw this away. If you’re not going to use it, leave it for
someone else to use.