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הַשֵּׁם
ha-Shem · “the Name”
Elohai is Hebrew for my God. Two words in English, one in Hebrew, and the whole project sits on the difference between them — because it isn't a description of God. It's something you say to Him.
וַאֲנִי עָלֶיךָ בָטַחְתִּי יְהוָה אָמַרְתִּי אֱלֹהַי אָתָּה
Va'ani alecha batachti, Adonai; amarti, Elohai atah
“But I trust in You, LORD; I say, You are my God.”
Psalm 31:14
The line comes from Psalm 31. What matters is where the psalmist is standing when he says it. He is not writing from safety. He is surrounded, worn down, describing himself as forgotten like a dead man out of mind — and in the middle of that he stops and makes a declaration about who God is anyway.
That is the posture every song here starts from: trust before the answer comes. Not the confidence that the situation has resolved — a decision about whose you are while it plainly hasn't. Saying it out loud is the point. That is why these are songs and not essays.
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אֱלֹהַי אָתָּה
“But I trust in You, LORD; I say, You are my God.”
Psalm 31:14