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# General Information:
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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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# song of ascents
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Possible meanings are 1) "song people sang while going up to Jerusalem for a celebration" or 2) "song people sang while going up the steps into the temple" or 3) "song whose words are like steps." See how you translated this in [Psalms 120:1](../120/001.md)
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# If Yahweh had not been on our side
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This is the beginning of a statement about what could have happened but did not. Yahweh really was on their side. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hypo]]) |