A feedback mechanism then operates. The psalm takes the fulfillment of this precious promise as also a figure of something. Kinfolk living together in harmony is a means of the blessing being released. But the blessing is also an image for the wonder of kinfolk living together in harmony. This is as wonderful as that blessing, that life, that enjoyment of sitting under your vine and fig tree as the sun begins to cool and the afternoon breeze arrives. Actually there is a tighter link between the two,