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# General Information:
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David's song to Yahweh starts. He uses parallelism to emphasize what he is saying. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul
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This is a progression from enemies in general to one specific enemy of David, King Saul.
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# out of the hand of
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This metonym means "out of the power of." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# Yahweh is my rock, my fortress
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This metaphor shows a progression from a part, "rock," to the whole, "fortress." A fortress is built of many large rocks. This means Yahweh has the strength to protect his people from harm. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/david]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahweh]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/hand]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/saul]]
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