Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani

Jesus' cry from the cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?', which Mark quotes in Aramaic. It is the opening of Psalm 22, but in Aramaic rather than Hebrew: šəḇaq 'leave' is an Aramaic verb.

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500 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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