uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-poetry

General Information:

(Some words not found in UHB: song_of the,ascents of,David see/lo/see! what? good and,how pleasant live brothers also/yet together )

General Information:

Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See also: figs-parallelism)

song of ascents

(Some words not found in UHB: song_of the,ascents of,David see/lo/see! what? good and,how pleasant live brothers also/yet together )

This could mean: (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

Behold

(Some words not found in UHB: song_of the,ascents of,David see/lo/see! what? good and,how pleasant live brothers also/yet together )

This word is used to stress the importance of the statement that follows.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

for brothers to live together

(Some words not found in UHB: song_of the,ascents of,David see/lo/see! what? good and,how pleasant live brothers also/yet together )

The relationships among fellow God’s people is spoken of as if they were brothers. Alternate translation: “for God’s people to live together peacefully as brothers”