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# General Information:
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Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])
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# For the chief musician; set to the Gittith style. A psalm of Asaph
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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](../front/intro.md).)
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# A psalm of Asaph
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A psalm that Asaph wrote.
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# For the chief musician
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"This is for the director of music to use in worship;"
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# set to the Gittith
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This may refer to a style of music. See how you translated this in [Psalms 8:1](../008/001.md).
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# God our strength
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The abstract noun "strength" can be stated as "strong." Alternate translation: "God who causes us to be strong" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# the God of Jacob
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Here "Jacob" represents all of his descendants. Alternate translation: "the God of Israel, the nation of Jacob's descendants" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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