# General Information:

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

# For the chief musician; set to the Gittith style. A psalm of Asaph.

This is a superscription that tells about the psalm. Some scholars say that this is part of the scripture and some say that it is not. (See "What are Superscriptions in Psalms" in [Introduction to Psalms](../front/intro.md).) 

# A psalm of Asaph

A psalm that Asaph wrote.

# For the chief musician

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

# set to the Gittith

This may refer to a style of music. See how you translated this in [Psalms 8:1](../008/001.md).

# God our strength

The abstract noun "strength" can be stated as "strong." Alternate translation: "God who causes us to be strong" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])

# the God of Jacob

Here "Jacob" represents all of his descendants. Alternate translation: "the God of Israel, the nation of Jacob's descendants" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])