unfoldingWord_en_tn/psa/018/001.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]])

# For the chief musician

"This is for the director of music to use in worship."

# 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.

# he sang to Yahweh the words of this song

"he sang this song to Yahweh"

# on the day that Yahweh rescued him

"after Yahweh had rescued him"

# from the hand of Saul

Here "hand" stands for the power of Saul. Alternate translation: "from Saul's power" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])