See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]]

## For the chief musician ##

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

## A psalm of David ##

“This is a psalm that David wrote.”

## I waited patiently for Yahweh ##

This implies that David had been praying to Yahweh and was waiting for Yahweh to help him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])

## out of the miry clay ##

"out of the muddy clay"