# General Information:

Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

# General Information:

This psalm is a prayer for help.

# 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.

# preserve

save

# Hide me from the secret plotting of evildoers

Here "Hide" represents protecting, and "the secret plotting of evildoers represents" represents the harm that evildoers secretly plan to do to David. AT: "Protect me from the harm that evil doers secretly plan to do to me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

# from the commotion

The words "hide me" are understood from the previous phrase and can be repeated here. AT: "hide me from the commotion" or "protect me from the commotion"(See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])

# the commotion of the doers of iniquity

Possible meanings are that "commotion" refers to 1) a noisy disturbance. AT: "the noisy disturbance that the doers of iniquity make" or 2) a crowd that makes a noisy disturbance. AT: "the noisy crowd of doers of iniquity"

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/psalm]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/david]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/voice]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/life]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/evil]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/iniquity]]