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General Information:
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; set to the Sheminith. A psalm of David
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.)
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.
Help, Yahweh
"Yahweh, come to my aid"
those who have integrity have vanished
"faithful people have all vanished"