Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
“To the end,” or perpetually, and “the length of our days,” are the same. The length of days, as it appears from Psalms 23:6, means the extent of the present life; the phrase is there used as synonymous with all the days of one’s life. Might not the Prophet here refer to the life of those then living? As to restoration after seventy years, he could have had no doubt. He seems to have pleaded for the restoration of the generation then living. — Ed. 