What does God expect from the people in charge? Justice in the Psalms: Prayer and Public Life, the new Journeys Judson Bible Lessons study, goes looking for the answer in the songs Israel sang out loud.In six lessons, your group will sit in on the courtroom of Psalm 82, where the powers that run the world are put on trial and asked what they did for the weak and the orphan. You'll pray Psalm 72 for a king whose main job is to stand up for the poor. You'll hear Psalm 10 let the victim speak, and you'll see why Psalm 94 hands vengeance back to God so the wronged don't turn into the thing that hurt them. Psalms 15 and 24 ask who gets to come into God's presence, and the answer has a lot to do with how we treat the folks next door. Psalm 146 closes the study with a warning not to trust in princes and a list of what God does for the hungry, the prisoner, the stranger, and the widow.Each lesson gives you a key verse, a close look at the Hebrew behind the text, clear takeaways, things to try this week, and a closing prayer. These psalms were never meant to stay in the sanctuary. Israel sang them because they wanted the courts fixed, and they still speak to anyone who has lost a case they couldn't appeal. Bring them to your class and let them talk about public life the way the psalmists did.
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