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General Information:

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

he hears my voice and my pleas for mercy

Here the word "voice" represents the person who is speaking. The abstract nouns "pleas" and "mercy" can be stated as "plead" and "merciful." Alternate translation: "he hears me when I plead for him to be merciful to me" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns)