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# General Information:
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Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# song of ascents
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Possible meanings are 1) "song people sang while going up to Jerusalem for a celebration" or 2) "song people sang while going up the steps into the temple" or 3) "song whose words are like steps." See how you translated this in [Psalms 120:1](../120/001.md)
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# my heart is not proud or my eyes haughty
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The heart and the eyes represent the person. AT: "I am not proud or haughty" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# I do not have great hopes for myself
Possible meanings are "I do not expect to do great things" or "I do not think I am great."
# things that are beyond me
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Things that are too hard for a person to understand are spoken of as if they are beyond the person or too far away from the person to be able to reach them. AT: "things that are too hard to understand" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])