en_tn/psa/034/001.md

General Information:

Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)

A psalm of David

Possible meanings are 1) David wrote the psalm or 2) the psalm is about David or 3) the psalm is in the style of David's psalms.

pretended to be insane

"acted like a crazy person"

before Abimelech

This refers to a specific historical event that the Hebrews knew well. AT: "when he was in Abimelech's house" or "when he was Abimelech's prisoner" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)

his praise will always be in my mouth

Here "in my mouth" refers to David speaking about Yahweh. AT: "I will always praise him out loud" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)