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# General Information:
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This psalm is a prayer for help. Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])
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# For the chief musician
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"This is for the director of music to use in worship"
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# set to Shoshannim
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This may refer to a style of music. See how you translated this in [Psalms 45:1](../045/001.md).
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# for the waters have put my life in danger
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The writer describes the troubles in his life as if he were drowning in a flood of water. Alternate translation: "for it feels like I am drowning in the waters" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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