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# General Information:
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Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# A psalm of David
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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.
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# pretended to be insane
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"acted like a crazy person"
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# before Abimelech
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This refers to a specific historical event that the Hebrews knew well. Alternate translation: "when he was in Abimelech's house" or "when he was Abimelech's prisoner" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# his praise will always be in my mouth
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Here "in my mouth" refers to David speaking about Yahweh. Alternate translation: "I will always praise him out loud" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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