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General Information:
This psalm is a song about God's faithfulness. 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; after the manner of Jeduthun. 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"
Jeduthun
One of David's chief musicians had this same name. This may refer to him. See how you translated this in Psalms 39:1. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
my salvation comes from him
"he is the one who rescues me" or "he is the one who saves me"