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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)
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.
Do not be irritated because of evildoers
"Do not let wicked people upset you" or "Do not be bothered by what wicked people do"
dry up as the grass ... wither as the green plants
Evildoers are spoken of as if they are grass and plants that dry up and die in the hot weather. These two similes both mean they will die. AT: "die" or "come to an end" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)