# 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.

# pretended to be insane

"acted like a crazy person"

# before Abimelech

This refers to a specific historical event that the Hebrews knew well. AT: "when he was in Abimelech's house" or "when he was Abimelech's prisoner" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])

# drove him out

"forcefully sent him away"

# his praise will always be in my mouth

Here "in my mouth" refers to David speaking about Yahweh. AT: "I will always praise him out loud" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/psalm]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/david]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/abimelech]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/praise]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahweh]]