en_tn/psa/124/001.md

# General Information:

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

# A song of ascents. Of David.

This is a superscription that tells about the psalm. Some scholars say that this is part of the scripture and some say that it is not. (See "What are Superscriptions in Psalms" in [Introduction to Psalms](../front/intro.md).)

# song of ascents

Possible meanings are 1) "song people sang while going up to Jerusalem for a celebration" or 2) "song people sang while going up the steps into the temple" or 3) "song whose words are like steps." See how you translated this in [Psalms 120:1](../120/001.md)

# If Yahweh had not been on our side
This is the beginning of a statement about what could have happened but did not. Yahweh really was on their side. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hypo]])
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Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])`
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58 Psalm Superscriptions - Add notes The ones that were not simply "A psalm of David." 2020-12-17 16:54:31 +00:00			`# A song of ascents. Of David.`

			`This is a superscription that tells about the psalm. Some scholars say that this is part of the scripture and some say that it is not. (See "What are Superscriptions in Psalms" in [Introduction to Psalms](../front/intro.md).)`

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initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`Possible meanings are 1) "song people sang while going up to Jerusalem for a celebration" or 2) "song people sang while going up the steps into the temple" or 3) "song whose words are like steps." See how you translated this in [Psalms 120:1](../120/001.md)`
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Add EOL at end of file so works in PDF 2019-06-11 19:35:15 +00:00			`This is the beginning of a statement about what could have happened but did not. Yahweh really was on their side. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hypo]])`