Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth.
Isaiah 48:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called [ones]: I am He; I am the First, I also am the Last. [Isa. 41:4.] American Standard Version (1901) Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. Common English Bible Listen to me, Jacob; Israel, whom I called: I am the one; I am the first and I am the last. Catholic Public Domain Version Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call. I am the same, I am the first, and I am the last. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou, Israel, whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last. |
Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth.
Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me: For blessed are they that keep my ways.
Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth of it
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last, I am he.
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he; before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Thus saith the LORD, the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which have been borne by me from the belly, which have been carried from the womb:
and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples, from far: the LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name:
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.
Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will make my judgement to rest for a light of the peoples.
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings.
Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I have wounded, and I heal: And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may shew forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
saying, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, which is and which was and which is to come, the Almighty.
These shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they also shall overcome that are with him, called and chosen and faithful.
And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and lived again:
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.