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Bible study · Psalm 55:1-23

Psalm 55: Cast your burden

Read Psalm 55:1-23 before you meet.

In a few lines

The Hebrew word for burden in "Cast your burden on the LORD" (55:22) comes nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible, and the lexicons give it as what is given, a lot. And moved in "He will never allow the righteous to be moved" (55:22) is the verb the psalm first used for what the enemies "bring" on him (55:3).

The verse to carry

“Cast your burden on the LORD and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.”

Psalm 55:22

To talk about

  1. 1. "For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it" (55:12). Why do you think hurt from someone close cuts deeper, and how does this psalm bring that hurt to God?

  2. 2. "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest" (55:6). When have you wanted to fly away from something, and what did you do instead?

  3. 3. "Cast your burden on the LORD and he will sustain you" (55:22). What is one burden you could hand to the LORD this week, and what would that look like in practice?

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