Whole day means each day; hand swapped from gifts to discipline
The “whole day” (Psalm 56:1) shows according to each day, as in David: “the whole day making war he afflicted me.” (Lamentations 3:3) And “he turned his hand” would also signify that formerly supplying the good things to me, now he brings on the disciplines, as if having exchanged the hand.
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 3, 3. Τὸ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν δηλοῖ καθ’ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν, ὡς παρὰ τῷ Δαβίδ· «ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν πολεμῶν ἔθλιψέ με. σημαίνοι δ’ ἂν τὸ ἔστρεψε χεῖρα αὐτοῦ καὶ ὅτι πάλαι μοι τὰ ἀγαθὰ χορηγῶν, νῦν τὰς παιδείας ἐπάγει, καθάπερ ἀλλάξας τὴν χεῖρα.
About this text
Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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