# General Information:

Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (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"

# set to the Sheminith

This may refer to a style of music. See how you translated this in [Psalms 6:1](../006/001.md).

# A psalm of David

Possible meanings are 1) David wrote the psalm or 2) the psalm is about David or 3) the psalm is in the style of David's psalms.

# Help, Yahweh

"Yahweh, come to my aid"

# faithful have vanished

"faithful people have all vanished"