Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionTo the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G[To the Choirmaster. Upon 'The Doe of the Dawn.' A Mizmor of David.] Eli, Eli, lamah azavtani? Far from my deliverance are the words of my roaring.
F.O.G.M
F.O.G Message[For the Music Director. To the tune of 'The Doe of the Dawn.' A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Far off is any rescue, even as I roar out my anguish.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleFor the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
Footnotes
The superscription identifies the tune as ʾayyelet haššaḥar ('The Doe of the Dawn'), almost certainly a well-known melody — and this same root (ʾayil, strength/deer) resurfaces in v.19 as ʾêyālûtî ('my strength'), forming a sonic and thematic bracket around the entire lament. The doubled ʾĒlî ('My God, My God') uses the intimate personal possessive rather than the more formal ʾĂdōnāy — this is the cry of one who knows God deeply and yet feels utterly abandoned. The word šaʾăgāh (roaring) is the thunderous, lion-in-extremis cry: not polite petition but raw, animal-level anguish. FOG preserves 'Eli, Eli' to retain the verbal echo with Matthew 27:46 (where Yeshua quotes this verse from the cross in Aramaic); FOG Message renders it in English while honouring the embodied force of the roar.
