The core imagery of our three psalms intertwines the spheres of architecture, agriculture, and domestic culture. Architecturally, we hear repeated mention of “Zion,” “the city,” “Jerusalem,” and the “house” (Pss 126:1; 127:1; 128:3, 5). Agricultural references abound: sowing and reaping (Ps 126:5–6); produce (Ps 128:2). Agricultural imagery also provides metaphors of domestic culture: wife as “fruitful vine”; children as “olive shoots” (Ps 128:3). More allusively, does the “seed” reference (Ps 126:5–6) possibly echo the promise to Abraham, of innumerable descendants (Gen 12:1–3)? Also worth a
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