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# 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,"
# Jeduthun
One of David's chief musicians had this same name. This may refer to him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
# 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.
# I will watch what I say
Here "watch" is an idiom that mean "pay attention to." AT: "I will pay attention to the things that I say" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
# so that I do not sin with my tongue
Here "tongue" refers to the writer's speech. AT: "so that I do not speak an offense against Yahweh" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# muzzle
To "muzzle" means to keep a mouth shut. Here David means that he will not speak while he is with an evil person. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/psalm]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/david]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/sin]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/tongue]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/evil]]