Turning And Turning

Καὶ σὺ, Κύριε, ἕως πότε; Ἐπίστρεψον, Κύριε, ῥῦσαι τὴν ψυχήν μου· σῶσον με ἕνεκεν τοῦ ἐλέους σου. Ὡς ἀποστραφέντος δὲ αὐτὸν ἐν οἷς ἡμάρτανε τοῦ Θεοῦ· διὸ πάντα τὰ κατ' οἶκον γέγονεν αὐτῷ δυσχερῆ, καὶ ἡ τοῦ παιδὸς ἐπανάστασις. Ἐπίστρεψον, φησὶ, Κύριε, γενόμενος λοιπὸν εὐμενὴς, καὶ τὴν ἐμὴν ἀνάσωσον ἐκ τῆς ἀσθενείας ψυχὴν, διὰ τὴν σὴν μόνην φιλανθρωπὶαν. Τὸ ̓Επίστρεψον διττῶς νοεῖται. δηλοῦται γὰρ ὁτὲ μὲν νόησις τοιαύτη· ἐπεὶ ἀπέστρεψας τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἐπ' ἐμοῦ, διὰ τί μοι χρήσιμον παρακαλῶ, ὅπως ἐπιστρέψῃς καὶ ἐπιφάνῃς μοι αὐτό. ὁτὲ δὲ παρίσταται θεωρία τοιαύτη· ἐπεὶ ἡ ψυχή μου ἁμαρτάνουσα ἀπεστράφησεν ἐπὶ κακῷ τῷ ἑαυτῆς, ἐπιστρέψας αὐτὴν πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἀνακαλούμενος κατὰ τὸ ̓Επιστράφητε, υἱοὶ ἀφεστηκότες, λυτρῶσαι αὐτὴν ἀπὸ τῶν μακρυνάντων ἁμαρτημάτων καὶ τῶν ἐνεργουσῶν αὐτὰ πονηρῶν δυνάμεων. Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Ψαλμούς, Ψαλμος Ϛ´ Source: Migne PG 39.1177a-b

And you, O Lord, how long? Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul, save me for your mercy's sake. 1 With the Lord turning away from him because of those things in which he sinned, so it was the cause of every domestic calamity to him, even to the rebellion of his son. Turn, he says, O Lord, and so after be benevolent, and guard my soul from weakness on account of your singular kindness. 'Turn' can be understood in two ways. Sometimes the meaning is: 'Since you have turned your face from me, therefore I plead for what is beneficial to me, even that your face shine upon me.' At other times the sense is: 'Since by sinning my soul has turned to my own evil, may it be that you turn it back and recall it to you.' According to which it is said: 'Turn, you sons, who have stood far off,' 2 which is the deliverance of the soul from its long course of sin and from the wicked causes of its works Didymus the Blind, Commentary on The Psalms, from Psalm 6 1 Ps 6.4-5 2 Jerem 3.14,22