# 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:

A psalm of Asaph.

# 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).

# A psalm of Asaph

"This is a psalm that Asaph wrote"

# God our strength

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

# the God of Jacob

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

# play the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp

These are musical instruments.

# tambourine

a musical instrument with a head like a drum that can be hit and with pieces of metal around the side that sound when the instrument is shaken (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-unknown]])

# the new moon

This is the beginning of the lunar month.

# the day of the full moon

This is the middle of the lunar month.

# when our feast day begins

"and on the days when our feasts begin"

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/chief]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/psalm]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/asaph]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/joy]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/jacob]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/lute]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/harp]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/sheep]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/horn]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/newmoon]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/feast]]