“For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.”
The affirmation that God will save Zion and rebuild the cities articulates that the rescue of individuals participates in the restoration of the entire covenant community. The reference to rebuilding suggests comprehensive renewal. The statement that servants of God will dwell there and possess it articulates that the renewed community will be populated by the righteous. This verse concludes the psalm with the vision of restoration extended to the entire people.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:35
1. We have been born into this world, and added to the people of God, at that period wherein already the herb from a grain of mustard seed has spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, has leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: Genesis 9:19 for from East and West and North and South shall come they that shall sit down with the Patriarchs, Matthew 8:11 while those shall have been…
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