Isaiah 41:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am first and will be with the last. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who has prepared and done this, calling forth and guiding the destinies of the generations [of the nations] from the beginning? I, the Lord–the first [existing before history began] and with the last [an ever-present, unchanging God]–I am He. American Standard Version (1901) Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last, I am he. Common English Bible Who has acted and who has done this, calling upon generation after generation since the beginning? I, the LORD, was first, and I will be the last! Catholic Public Domain Version Who has worked and accomplished these things, calling to the generations from the beginning? "It is I, the Lord! I am the first and the last." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord. I am the first and the last. |
The children of your servants shall live secure; their offspring shall be established in your presence.
Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these? He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name; because he is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing.
so that all may see and know, all may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.
Who declared it from the beginning, so that we might know, and beforehand, so that we might say, “He is right”? There was no one who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.
He pursues them and passes on safely, scarcely touching the path with his feet.
Who gave up Jacob to the spoiler and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the Lord, against whom they sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?
You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Indeed, since that day I am he; there is no one who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can hinder it?
declaring the outcome from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, “My purpose shall stand, and I will fulfill my intention,”
Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called: I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.
“Look, the virgin shall become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means, “God is with us.”
and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
From one ancestor he made all peoples to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,
See now that I, even I, am he; there is no god besides me. I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and no one can deliver from my hand.
saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who was dead and came to life:
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”