en_tn_condensed/psa/053/001.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]])

# For the chief musician; set to Mahalath. A maschil 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"

# set to Mahalath

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).