Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Messagereleased among the dead, like the slaughtered lying in their tombs— those You no longer call to mind, severed forever from Your reach.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.Gset loose among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, cut off as they are from Your hand.
KJV
King James VersionFree among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleI am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
Footnotes
*Chofshi* (free, released) is the legal term for a slave who has been emancipated (Exod 21:2–5; Lev 19:20). Applied to the dead, it carries bitter irony: they are 'free'—but free from all covenant relationship, beyond divine memory (*zakar*, to remember), beyond the reach of God's hand. In Israel's theology, to be remembered by YHWH is to be alive to Him; to be forgotten is a form of non-existence. FOG renders 'set loose' to preserve the dark irony of emancipation; FOG Message uses 'released' and 'severed forever from Your reach' to draw out the covenant weight of being beyond divine remembrance.
