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# General Information:
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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]])
# For the chief musician
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"This is for the director of music to use in worship."
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# 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.
# I waited patiently for Yahweh
This means the writer was waiting for Yahweh to help him.
# he listened to me ... heard my cry
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These mean the same thing, and can be combined into one statement. AT: "he listened to me when I called out to him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]])
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# out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay
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These two metaphors mean the same thing. The writer's danger is spoken of as if it was a deadly pit full of mud. This emphasizes the danger. AT: "from being trapped in a horrible pit full of sticky mud" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# he set my feet on a rock
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Here "my feet" refers to the writer, and "a rock" refers a place of safety. AT: "he provided safety for me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/psalm]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/david]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/patient]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahweh]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/pit]]