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

crying out

"asking you for help"

come quickly to me

The psalmist speaks as if Yahweh were a person who needed to come from another place to help him. What the psalmist wanted Yahweh to do can be stated clearly. AT: "come quickly to help me" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)

Listen to me when I call

"Please hear me when I call" or "I beg you to hear me when I call"