celebrate Yahweh’s enthronement as king, and Zion psalms (e.g. Psalms 46; 76; 87), which glory in Mt Zion, Yahweh’s holy dwelling place in Jerusalem. Communal laments. These are psalms in which the nation laments some public disaster that has come upon it, for example the destruction of the Jerusalem temple (Psalms 74; 79) or some other disaster (e.g. Psalms 60; 80; 126). After an opening invocation of God, there is no fixed order in what follows, though the main part of the psalm tends to consist