en_tn_condensed/psa/088/001.md

# 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 the sons of Korah; a song

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 song, a psalm of the sons of Korah

"This is a psalm that the sons of Korah wrote"

# for the chief musician

"this is for the director of music to use in worship"

# set to the Mahalath Leannoth style

This may refer to a style of music. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-transliterate]])

# A maschil

This may refer to a style of music. See how you translated this in [Psalms 32:1](../032/001.md).

# Heman

This is the name of a man. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names]])

# God of my salvation

The abstract noun "salvation" can be stated as a verb. Alternate translation: "you are the one who saves me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])

# day and night

The writer uses these words with opposite meanings to say that he cries out continually. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-merism]])