en_tn_condensed/psa/061/001.md

# General Information:

This is a song about God's faithfulness. Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])

# For the chief musician; on a stringed instrument. A psalm of David

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).)

# For the chief musician

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

# on a stringed instrument

"people should play a stringed instrument with this song"

# Hear my cry, God; attend to my prayer

These clauses have a similar meaning. Alternate translation: "God, listen to me and answer my prayer" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-doublet]])
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Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`This is a song about God's faithfulness. 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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58 Psalm Superscriptions - Add notes Deleted periods at end of superscription snippets. 2020-12-17 18:34:37 +00:00			`# For the chief musician; on a stringed instrument. A psalm of David`
58 Psalm Superscriptions - Add notes The ones that were not simply "A psalm of David." 2020-12-17 16:54:31 +00:00
			`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).)`

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initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`"This is for the director of music to use in worship"`
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initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`# on a stringed instrument`
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initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`"people should play a stringed instrument with this song"`

			`# Hear my cry, God; attend to my prayer`

Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`These clauses have a similar meaning. Alternate translation: "God, listen to me and answer my prayer" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-doublet]])`
initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00