In the generation or so since the foundational work of Robert Alter, Adele Berlin, and others, narrative and artistic literary analysis has come into its own as a profitable and popular field of study alongside more formal and genre approaches to reading psalms. In this paper, I integrate and synthesize the linguistic, discourse, formal, and poetic features of Psalm 122 to give a clear interpretation of the message and the art of one of the best-loved poems in the Psalter.