Psalms 126

The psalm moves in two registers: remembrance and petition. The first half recalls Zion's return from captivity as something so sudden the people could not believe it waking — the heathen nations themselves named Jehovah as the cause. The second half turns that memory into a plea: do it again, as water breaks through dry southern wadis in flood season. The closing image — the weeping sower who returns with sheaves — is not merely agricultural comfort; the sheaves echo Joseph's first dream in Genesis 37, where the birthright heir's sheaf rose and all others bowed. The servant who goes out bearing covenant seed through seasons of sorrow is typed on Joseph: hidden, grieving, yet carrying what will feed the house of Israel.