# General Information:

This psalm is a song of praise. 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. A song, a psalm

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"

# Shout out loud to God

The kind of shout can be stated clearly. Alternate translation: "Shout joyfully to God"  "or "Shout praises to God" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])

# all the earth

This refers to all the people who live on the earth. Alternate translation: "everyone on earth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])