Psalm of the Crucifixion

Music by James Ralph Boyd.

Piano sheet music available upon request at jamesralphb6@icloud.com.

Subject: This music video depicts Jesus' words spoken in Psalm 22 and in the four Gospels, specifically after the last supper, on Gethsemane, during His trial before Pontius Pilate, and at the moment of His death on Calvary. Featuring the Galilean Aramaic pronunciation of "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (əlahí əlahí ləmáh šəvaqtáni), based on Steve Caruso's website aramaicnt.org that distinguishes the Galilean dialect, the correct Aramaic pronunciation of words spoken by Jesus 2,000 years ago, and the incorrect Greek phonetic pronunciations attempted in the Gospels of Matthew 27:46 and Mark15:34. According to Caruso, when the Gospel writers were compiling their work in Greek, they ran into some interesting problems. Mainly that the Greek writing system had no way to express some of the Aramaic sounds. In Greek, there was not a sufficient 1-to-1 relationship with Aramaic vowels.

Lyrics

Father, why have You abandoned Me this day?

Father, holy Father, hallowed be Your name.

Your will be done this day.

Father, let this cup pass from Me.

Not as I will, but as You will.

Your will be done.

əlahí əlahí ləmáh šəvaqtáni.

Do not be far from Me.

Father, the world does not know You, but I know You.

And to them I have revealed Your name.

I pray that all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me.

That they also may be in Us.

That the world believe.

That they may be one, as We are one.

Father, this hour has come.

Give glory to Your Son, so that Your Son may glorify You.

Now this is everlasting life:

That they should know You, the only true God.

You sent Your Son Jesus to give glory to You by accomplishing the work that You gave Me to do.

Now glorify Me, Father, with You with the glory that I had with You before the world began.

I revealed Your name to those whom You gave Me out of this world.

Peter, James, and John, pray with Me that you may not undergo the test.

My soul is sorrowful even unto death.

Behold, that the hour is at hand.

Get up. Let us go.

My betrayer is at hand.

Oh, Judas, friend, do what you have come for.

Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?

Are you betraying Me with a kiss, My friend?

Judas, friend, My friend.

ləmáh šəvaqtáni.

Pontius Pilate, you asked Me, “What is truth?”

For this I was born into this world to testify to the truth.

Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice, listens to My voice.

I am the truth.

Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

They have pierced My hands and My feet, but You, Father, do not be far from Me.

Father, Your will be done.

It is finished this day.