# 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 ... commotion of the doers of iniquity

These two clauses have similar meanings. The second clause provides more detail by describing what the "secret plotting" sounds like. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

# from the commotion

Here the implied words "hide me" can be added to the translation. AT: "hide me from the commotion" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])

# commotion

a confusing sound of noise and excitement