Build

This week we start worship with:

Psalm 69:30, 32–35a

I will praise the name of God with a song;

    I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

When the humble see it they will be glad;

    you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

For the Lord hears the needy

    and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.

Let heaven and earth praise him,

    the seas and everything that moves in them.

For God will save Zion

    and build up the cities of Judah, . . .

A victors history is one which the king in power records only victory after victory in their chronology.  The Bible is not so.  The focus of this verse are the "humble", the "needy", and the "prisoners".  

But in spite of this the Psalmist praises God and encourages all of creation to praise Him, for what will happen.  God will "built up" (bānâ) the cities of Judah.  The word implies permanence and protection.

The Psalm is not a prayer but rather a prophecy.