poems encountered in the Psalter. In order of occurrence we have an example from a hymn, a lament, a psalm of remembrance and a psalm of confidence. We don’t have to know the Psalter very well to recognize that there are different types of psalms—roughly seven basic types. Before analyzing these types, however, it is important to realize that many differences occur between psalms of the same type. In other words, we must recognize similarities between psalms, not cloned repetition. Psalms is not