It's Good to Suffer when You're Young Lyrics

I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath

He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light

Surely He is against me, He turns His hand against me all the day

My flesh and skin has He made old; He has broken my bones.

He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and woe

He has set me in dark places, as those who are dead of old

He has imprisoned me, He has made my chains heavy

And when I cry and scream, He shuts out my prayer

He has blocked my pathways with crafted stone, He has made my paths crooked

He was like a beast lying in wait for me, like a lion in secret places

He has overturned my ways, and pulled me apart; He has made me desolate

He has drawn His bow, and I am His arrow's target

His arrows have Pierced my loins

I was a joke to my people, and the subject of their continuous mocking

He has made me bitter and drunken with absinthe

He has broken my teeth with gravel and covered me with ashes

And you have taken peace from my soul; I have forgotten prosperity

I told myself that my strength and hope is destroyed among YHWH

Remembering my affliction, the bitterness of absinthe

My soul still remembers, and I am humiliated

This I remember, and so I have hope

It is because of Yahweh's mercy we are not consumed, because His compassion fails not

They are renewed every morning; Your faithfulness is great

Yahweh is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in Him

Yahweh is good to those who wait for Him, to souls that seek Him

It is good for man to hope and wait quietly for the Lord

It is good for a man to bear suffering in his youth

He isolates Himself in silence, for he has brought it upon himself

He puts his lips to the dust; there may yet be hope

He allows his face to be struck, he is an object of scorn

Yahweh will not push him aside forever

Though He causes grief, He will still have compassion through His plentiful mercies

For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men

To crush under His feet all the prisoners of the earth

To avert the due justice of a man before the face of the Most High

Yahweh does not approve of subverting a man in his own cause

Who can say that something will happen when Yahweh has not commanded it?

Both good and evil are spoken from the mouth of the Most High

Why then should a man complain for the punishment of his own sins?

Let us examine and test our methods and turn again to Yahweh

Let us lift up our hearts and hands unto God in the heavens

We have sinned in rebellion: you have not pardoned us

You have shrouded us in anger: you have killed without pity

You have covered Yourself with a cloud that our prayers could not pierce

You have made us as the dregs, and garbage in the midst of everyone

All our enemies have spoken against us

Fear and traps, desolation and destruction have come upon us

My eyes run with rivers for the destruction of the daughter of my people

My tears pour unceasing without relent

Until Yahweh looks down, beholding from above

My eyes and heart are affected because of all the daughters of my city

My enemies hunted me like a bird without cause

They have placed me in the dungeon and put a stone upon me

Waters flowed over my head, and I told myself it was the end

I called upon your name, O Yahweh, out of the deep dungeon

You have heard my voice; do not hide your ears from my sigh or crying

You came near in the day that I called upon you, and you said not to fear

O Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul and rescued my life

O yahweh, you have seen my wrong: judge my cause

You have seen their animosity and devices against me

You have heard their scorn and thoughts against me

The lips of those that spoke against me, and their devices against me all the day

Behold their setting and rising: I am threir musick

Reward them, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands

Give them Your curse, sorrow of heart

Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of Yahweh.