# 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.

# to bring to remembrance

"this psalm was written to cause people to remember"

# those who

"the people who"

# take my life

This idiom means "kill me." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# be ashamed and humiliated

This can be stated in active form. AT: "may God put them to shame and bring disgrace upon them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

# let them be turned back and brought to dishonor

This can be stated in active form. AT: "may God turn them around and make them ashamed for what they have done" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

# turned back

To be stopped or thwarted is spoken of as being turned back from their attack. AT: "stopped" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# those who say, "Aha, aha"

This is an expression of mocking laughter. You may replace "Aha, aha" with whatever laughing sounds like in your language. AT: "those who mock and laugh at me"

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/psalm]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/david]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/save]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahweh]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/shame]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/turn]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/dishonor]]