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# General Information:
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Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])
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# For the chief musician; set to the Sheminith. A psalm of David
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This is a superscription that tells about the psalm. Some scholars say that this is part of the scripture and some say that it is not. (See "What are Superscriptions in Psalms" in [Introduction to Psalms ](../front/intro.md ).)
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# For the chief musician
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"This is for the director of music to use in worship"
# set to the Sheminith
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This may refer to a style of music. See how you translated this in [Psalms 6:1 ](../006/001.md ).
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# Help, Yahweh
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"Yahweh, come to my aid"
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# those who have integrity have vanished
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"faithful people have all vanished"
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