Mark 15:34...Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?

Jesus's words from the cross.

KJV

Mark 15:34...Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? ... My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

NIV

Mark 15:34. Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?...My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

3RD (NLT, if not otherwise identified)

Mark 15:34. Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?...My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

LISTENERS HEARD

The Divine of mine, the Divine of mine for what have you left me behind?

MY TAKE

Since Psalms were songs, Jesus was singing his death song.

GREEK (Each Word Explained Bottom of Page)

Mark 15:34. “Ἐλωί ἐλωί λαμὰ σαβαχθανεί;” ...“Ὁ θεός μου [ὁ θεός μου], εἰς τί ἐγκατέλιπές με;”

The Greek of Psalm 22 from the Septuagint: ὁ θεὸς ὁ θεός μου πρόσχες μοι ἵνα τί ἐγκατέλιπές με

GREEK ORDER

Ὁ θεός μου [ὁ θεός μου], εἰς τί ἐγκατέλιπές με;”
The Divine of mine, the Divine of mine, for what have you left behind? me

LOST IN TRANSLATION

One of the verses that prove that all Judeans didn't speak Aramaic but rather Greek. those hearing Jesus speak Aramaic here mistake "Eloi" for the Greek name of Elijah, Elias. For more on the topic of Jesus speaking Greek, please refer to this article.

Many people reading this verse today think that means that Jesus felt alienated from his Father at the time of his death. The Jews of his era, would have recognized it for what it really is, the first line of Psalm 22. If you read the Psalm (an English translation here), you can see why he was quoting it: it was a description of his death. Because this line is a quote, we have four sources for this verse, Jesus's word in the Greek both here and in Matthew, the Hebrew Psalm, and the Greek Psalm.

The differences between the Greek of Matthew, Mark, and the Septuagint correspondence between Christ's quotes here in Mark and the Greek Septuagint are slight but telling. The version in Matthew is more different. The fact that the quotes are not exactly as the Septuagint indicate the the Gospel writers did not use it as a source when Jesus's quotes the OT.

MW - Missing Word -- The word "the" is not shown in the English translation.
MW - Missing Word -- The word "the" is not shown in the English translation.
WT - Wrong Tense - The verb "hath" seems to indicate an action completed in the past, but the tense is something happening at a point in time past, present, or future.

MW - Missing Word -- The word "the" is not shown in the English translation.
MW - Missing Word -- The word "the" is not shown in the English translation.
WT - Wrong Tense - The verb "have" seems to indicate an action completed in the past, but the tense is something happening at a point in time past, present, or future.

MW - Missing Word -- The word "the" is not shown in the English translation.
MW - Missing Word -- The word "the" is not shown in the English translation.
WT - Wrong Tense - The verb "have" seems to indicate an action completed in the past, but the tense is something happening at a point in time past, present, or future.

EACH WORD of KJV

Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? we are only analyzing the Greek here.

My -- "My" is from the regular first-person pronoun in Greek in the form of a genitive. Since it appears after the noun so "of me."

missing "the" -- (MW) The untranslated word is the Greek definite article, which usually precedes a noun and, without a noun, takes the meaning of "the one." The Greek article is much closer to our demonstrative pronouns ("this", "that", "these", "those"). See this article for more.

God, -- The word translated as "God" means "God" and "deity." It is introduced with an article, so "the God" or "the Divine." Jesus often uses it this way perhaps to indicate the one God as opposed to the pagan gods.

my -- "My" is from the regular first-person pronoun in Greek in the form of a genitive. Since it appears after the noun so "of me."

missing "the" -- (MW) The untranslated word is the Greek definite article, which usually precedes a noun and, without a noun, takes the meaning of "the one." The Greek article is much closer to our demonstrative pronouns ("this", "that", "these", "those"). See this article for more.

God, -- The word translated as "God" means "God" and "deity." It is introduced with an article, so "the God" or "the Divine." Jesus often uses it this way perhaps to indicate the one God as opposed to the pagan gods. This is the way it appears in the Septuagint. The form is nominative, not vocative (calling God by names) as in Matthew.

why -- The two Greek words translated as "why" means "for what." The word translated as "for" means "into" a place, but "for" a purpose or object. The word "what" means "anything", but it plays the roles of the common question words in English: who, what, why, etc.

hast -- (WT) This helping verb "hath" indicates that the verb is the tense indicating an action competed in the past. This is not the tense of the verbs here.

thou -- This is from the second-person, plural form of the verb.

forsaken -- The Greek word translated as "have you forsaken" means to "leave behind" or "to abandon."

me? "Me" is the regular first-person pronoun in Greek.

EACH WORD of NIV

My -- "My" is from the regular first-person pronoun in Greek in the form of a genitive. Since it appears after the noun so "of me."

missing "the" -- (MW) The untranslated word is the Greek definite article, which usually precedes a noun and, without a noun, takes the meaning of "the one." The Greek article is much closer to our demonstrative pronouns ("this", "that", "these", "those"). See this article for more.

God, -- The word translated as "God" means "God" and "deity." It is introduced with an article, so "the God" or "the Divine." Jesus often uses it this way perhaps to indicate the one God as opposed to the pagan gods.

my -- "My" is from the regular first-person pronoun in Greek in the form of a genitive. Since it appears after the noun so "of me."

missing "the" -- (MW) The untranslated word is the Greek definite article, which usually precedes a noun and, without a noun, takes the meaning of "the one." The Greek article is much closer to our demonstrative pronouns ("this", "that", "these", "those"). See this article for more.

God, -- The word translated as "God" means "God" and "deity." It is introduced with an article, so "the God" or "the Divine." Jesus often uses it this way perhaps to indicate the one God as opposed to the pagan gods. This is the way it appears in the Septuagint. The form is nominative, not vocative (calling God by names) as in Matthew. In the original Hebrew of Psalm 22, the word is the simple "El," which means "God" or "Might one."

why -- The two Greek words translated as "why" means "for what." The word translated as "for" means "into" a place, but "for" a purpose or object. The word "what" means "anything", but it plays the roles of the common question words in English: who, what, why, etc.

have -- (WT) This helping verb "have" indicates that the verb is the tense indicating an action competed in the past. This is not the tense of the verbs here.

you -- This is from the second-person, plural form of the verb.

abandoned -- The Greek word translated as "abandoned" means to "leave behind" or "to abandon."

me? "Me" is the regular first-person pronoun in Greek.

EACH WORD 3RD (NLT or as noted)