en_tn_condensed/psa/141/001.md

General Information:

Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-poetry and rc://en/ta/man/jit/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. Alternate translation: "come quickly to help me" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit)

Listen to me when I call

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