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