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Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
song of ascents
Possible meanings are 1) "song people sang while going up to Jerusalem for a celebration" or 2) "song people sang while going up the steps into the temple" or 3) "song whose words are like steps." See how you translated this in Psalms 120:1
to rise up early, to come home late
A person who works hard often has to wake up earlier in the morning and return home late at night.
eat the bread of hard work
This is an idiom. Bread often represents the food a person needs every day in order to live. AT: "work hard for your daily needs" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)