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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"
on stringed instruments
"people should play stringed instruments with this song"
A maschil
This may refer to a style of music. See how you translated this in Psalms 32:1
Give ear to my prayer
Giving one's ear represents listening. AT: "Listen to my prayer" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
do not hide yourself from my plea
Refusing to pay attention to his plea is spoken of as hiding himself from it. AT: "do not ignore my plea" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)