You know I am innocent,\par but no one can save me\par from your power!\par
Isaiah 43:13 - Easy To Read Version “I have always been God. When I do something, no person can change what I have done. And no person can save people from my power.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yes, from the time of the first existence of day and from this day forth I am He; and there is no one who can deliver out of My hand. I will work, and who can hinder or reverse it? American Standard Version (1901) Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it? Common English Bible From the dawn of time, I am the one. No one can escape my power. I act, and who can undo it? Catholic Public Domain Version And from the beginning, I am the same. And there is no one who can rescue from my hand. I act, and who can turn it aside? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And from the beginning I am the same: and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who shall turn it away? |
You know I am innocent,\par but no one can save me\par from your power!\par
But if God decides not to help them,\par then no person can judge God guilty.\par If God hides himself from people,\par then no person can find him.\par God is the ruler over people and nations.\par
If God takes something away,\par no one can stop him.\par No one can say to him,\par ‘What are you doing?’\par
We are your servants \{today\}.\par Our children will live here.\par And even their descendants will be here\par to worship you.\par
You people have forgotten God.\par So you had better understand\par before I tear you apart!\par If that happens,\par no person can save you!\par
God, you were God\par before the mountains were born\par and the earth and the world were made.\par God, you have always been,\par and you will always be, God!\par
God, your kingdom has continued forever.\par God, you have lived forever!\par
There is no person who is wise enough to make a plan that can succeed if the Lord is against it.
I was made in the beginning.\par I was made first, before the world.\par
When the Lord makes a plan, no person can stop that plan. When the Lord raises his arm to punish people, no person can stop him.
Who caused \{these things to happen\}?\par Who did this?\par Who called all people from the beginning?\par \{I, the Lord, did these things\}!\par I, the Lord, am the first.\par I was here before the beginning.\par And I will be here when all things\par are finished.\par
“In the beginning, I told you about the things that will happen in the end. A long time ago, I told you things that had not yet happened. When I plan something—that thing happens. I do the things I want to do.
I carried you when you were born, and I will carry you when you become old. Your hair will become gray, and I will still carry you, because I made you. I will continue to carry you and I will save you.
That will happen to everything\par that you worked so hard for.\par The people you did business with\par all your life will leave you.\par Every person will go his own way.\par And there will be no one left to save you.”\par
Come here and listen to me!\par I was there when Babylon began\par as a nation.\par And from the beginning, I spoke clearly,\par so that people could know what I said.”\par
God is high and lifted up.\par God lives forever.\par God’s name is holy.\par God says:\par I live in a high and holy place,\par but also with people that are\par sad and humble.\par I will give new life to the people\par that are humble in spirit.\par I will give new life to the people\par that are sad in their hearts.\par
People on earth are not truly important.\par God does what he wants\par with the powers of heaven\par and the people on earth.\par No one can stop his powerful hand!\par No one can question the things he does!\par
Now I will strip her. She will be naked, so all her lovers can see her. No person will be able to save her from my power. {\cf2\super [16]}
Why? Because I will be like a lion to Ephraim.\par I will be like a young lion\par to the nation {\cf2\super [62]} of Judah.\par I—yes, I (the Lord)—will rip them to pieces.\par I will carry them away,\par And no person can save.\par
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,\par are the smallest town in Judah.\par Your family is almost too small to count.\par But the “Ruler of Israel”\par will come from you for me.\par His beginnings {\cf2\super [60]} are from ancient times,\par from long, long ago.\par
The Lord told me to bless those people. The Lord blessed them, so I cannot change that.
Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth. Before Abraham {\cf2\super [149]} was born, I AM. {\cf2\super [150]} ”
In Christ we were chosen \{to be God’s people\}. God had already planned for us to be his people, because that is what God wanted. And God is the One who makes everything agree with what he decides and wants.
People will kill your cows in front of you. But you will not eat any of the meat. People will take your donkeys. And they will not give them back to you. Your enemies will get your sheep. And there will not be anyone to save you.
“‘Now, see that I and only I am God! There is no other God! I put people to death and I let people live. I can hurt people, and I can make them well. No one can save another person from my power!
Honor and glory to the King that rules forever. He cannot be destroyed and cannot be seen. Honor and glory forever and ever to the only God. Amen.
Someone told the king of Jericho, “Last night some men from Israel came to look for weaknesses in our country.”
The Lord God says, “I am the Alpha and the Omega. {\cf2\super [6]} I am the One who is, who \{always\} was, and who is coming. I am the All-Powerful.”