Return. — Better, turn, either from anger (Exodus 32:12), or merely as in Psalms 6:4, “turn to thy servant.”
Plainly we have here the experience of some particular epoch, and a prayer for Israel. From his meditation on the shortness of human existence the poet does not pass to a prayer for a prolonged life for himself, like Hezekiah, but for some intervention in relief of the suffering community of which he forms. part.
How long? — See Note, Psalms 74:9.
Let it repent thee. — Better, have pity on. (See Deuteronomy 32:36.)