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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)
song of ascents
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
If Yahweh had not been on our side
This is the beginning of a contrafactual statement about what would have happened if Yawheh did not help them. But Yahweh really was on their side. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo)