In "You'll suffer unto me", is 'You' the one who actively causes the suffering or the one passively inflicted upon?
Metallica "Harvester of sorrow". https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/10243/
Further question: is the singer in this song 'You' or 'me'?
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Anger Misery You’ll suffer unto me It seems to me that "me" is the singer, and "You" refers to "Anger" and "Misery". "You'll suffer unto me" seems designed to evoke the line from the Bible "Suffer the little children to come unto me", where "suffer" is an old word for "allow". However, "You'll allow unto me" makes no apparent sense.
- Anger Misery You’ll suffer unto me It seems to me that "me" is the singer, and "You" refers to "Anger" and "Misery".
- "You'll suffer unto me" seems designed to evoke the line from the Bible "Suffer the little children to come unto me", where "suffer" is an old word for "allow".
- However, "You'll allow unto me" makes no apparent sense.
- My guess is that the writer of this lyric has tried to echo words from the Bible text, but has misundertood what it actually means, so the result makes no sense.
- I am happy to be proved wrong if anyone knows better.
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You’ll suffer unto me
It seems to me that "me" is the singer, and "You" refers to "Anger" and "Misery".
"You'll suffer unto me" seems designed to evoke the line from the Bible "Suffer the little children to come unto me", where "suffer" is an old word for "allow". However, "You'll allow unto me" makes no apparent sense. My guess is that the
0I think the word order is reversed in the lyrics. Used in poetry and can be harder to understand.
You'll suffer anger and misery unto me.
You'll "allow" anger and misery in me?
You'll cause me to feel anger and misery.
So it is you who are actively causing the anger and misery in me.
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