# General Information:

Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

# General Information:

This is a song about God's faithfulness.

# For the chief musician

"This is for the director of music to use in worship"

# on a stringed instrument

"people should play a stringed instrument with this song"

# A psalm of David

Possible meanings are 1) David wrote the psalm or 2) the psalm is about David or 3) the psalm is in the style of David's psalms.

# Hear my cry, God; attend to my prayer

These clauses have a similar meaning. AT: "God, listen to me and answer my prayer" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]])

# overwhelmed

"overcome"

# lead me to the rock that is higher than I

Here the writer speaks of God as if he were a high rock that he could climb for protection. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# a strong tower from the enemy

The implied words "that keeps me safe" can be added to the translation. AT: "you have been like a strong tower that keeps me safe from my enemy" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])

# a strong tower

Here the writer speaks of God as if he were a "strong tower" that provides protection from his enemies. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/psalm]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/david]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/cry]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/pray]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/call]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/heart]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/refuge]]