en_tn_lite_do_not_use/psa/139/001.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.

# examined

"tested"

# when I sit down and when I get up

The psalmist uses these two actions to represent everything he does. AT: "everything I do" or "everything about me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])