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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"
set to Mahalath
This may refer to a style of music. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-transliterate)
A maschil
This may refer to a style of music. See how you translated this in Psalms 32:1.
the children of mankind
This refers to all people.
who seek after him
Seeking God as a person would look for someone is spoken of as "seeking" God. Possible meanings are 1) wanting to know God. AT: "who want to know him" or 2) worshiping God. AT: "who worship him" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
They have all turned away
Rejecting God and what is right is spoken of as turning away. AT: "They have all turned away from doing what is right" or "They have all rejected God" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)