1.3 KiB
General Information:
Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
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
my heart is not proud or my eyes haughty
The heart and the eyes represent the person. AT: "I am not proud or haughty" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)
I do not have great hopes for myself
Possible meanings are "I do not expect to do great things" or "I do not think I am great."
things that are beyond me
Things that are too hard for a person to understand are spoken of as if they are beyond the person or too far away from the person to be able to reach them. AT: "things that are too hard to understand" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)