In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
In my distress I called upon the Lord - literally, in the distress to me.
And cried to my God - "my," as standing to me in a covenant relation, and whom, having often addressed my prayer to him, I could approach in an enlightened knowledge of his character and confident reliance on his grace.
And he did hear my voice out of his temple, х meeheeykaalow (H1964)] - from his palace. Joined with Yahweh, cheeykaal sometimes denotes the tabernacle (1 Samuel 1:9; 1 Samuel 3:3; Psalms 5:8); at other times the temple (2 Kings 24:13; 2 Chronicles 3:17; Jeremiah 50:28; Haggai 2:15; Zechariah 6:14-15); but here it is used poetically for heaven (cf. Psalms 11:4; Psalms 18:7; Psalms 29:9; Micah 1:2).
And my cry did enter into his ears, х wªshawª`aatiy (H7775)] - cry for help. The latter clause of the parallelism merely repeats, though in a stronger manner, the sense of the former, intimating that the supplications of the Psalmist not only ascended to heaven, but actually reached the Hearer of prayer. Since David exhibits in one awful scene of elemental convulsion all the sufferings of his chequered life, so also he groups together in one all the prayers he offered, as well as the many remarkable deliverances with which he was favoured.