You would think only so much can go wrong
Calamity only strikes once
And you assume this one has suffered her share
Life will be kinder from here
Oh, but sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear?

But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our Hope is unchanged

How do we comprehend peace within pain?
Or joy at a good man's wake?
Walk a mile with the woman whose body is racked
With illness, oh how can she laugh?
Oh, 'cause sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear?

But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our Hope is unchanged

Emmanuel, God is with us
El Shaddai, all sufficient
We never walk alone
And this is our hope

But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our Hope is unchanged


(Christa N. Wells, N. Grant)

Behind the Song:
"This very honest lyric was written for a woman greatly struggling with cancer. Life so often doesn't make sense, and I can relate to the Psalmist when he wonders why the wicked prosper and the righteous suffer. But our Hope endures the worst of conditions. We serve an everlasting, all-knowing, all-sufficient God; our El-Shaddai, our Emmanuel; our only Hope in this life." - Natalie Grant