en_tn/psa/008/001.md

# General Information:

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

# For the chief musician

"This is for the director of music to use in worship"

# set to the gittith style

This may refer to a style of music.

# 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.

# how magnificent is your name in all the earth

God's "name" represents his whole being. AT: "people all over the world know that you are very great" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

# Out of the mouth of babies and infants you have created praise

Causing babies to praise God is spoken of as if the praise were an object that God created in the babies' mouths and made come out. AT: "You have given babies and infants the ability to praise you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])