## your throne ## "your power and authority to rule as king" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]]) ## is from generation to generation ## AT: "will always continue" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]]) ## Why do you forget us forever? Will you forsake us for very, very long? ## AT: "It is as though you will forget us forever or not come back to us for a very, very long time!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]]) ## Restore our days as of old ## AT: "Make our lives good, like they used to be" or "Make us as great as we used to be" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]]) ## unless we truly are rejected and your anger towards us is too great! ## Possible meanings are 1) that the writer is afraid that Yahweh might be too angry to restore them (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]]) or 2) that he is saying that Yahweh is too angry to restore them (UDB). ## unless we truly are rejected ## AT: "unless you truly have rejected us." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])