Now then, sons, listen to me, pay attention to the words of my mouth.
Isaiah 48:12 - Tree of Life Version Listen to Me, Jacob, Israel whom I called: I am He; I am the first; I am also the last. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 then, sons, listen to me, pay attention to the words of my mouth.
Draw near, O nations, to hear, and listen, O peoples! Let the earth hear, and all it contains, the world, and all its offspring!
Lift up your eyes on high, and see! Who created these? The One who brings out their host by number, the One who calls them all by name. Because of His great strength and vast power, not one is missing.
Who has performed and done it? Calling forth the generations from the beginning, I, Adonai, am the first and the last, I am He!”
“You are My witnesses” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “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, and there will none after Me.
Thus says Adonai, Israel’s King and his Redeemer, Adonai-Tzva’ot: “I am the first, and the last, and there is no God beside Me.
“Listen to Me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, borne by Me from birth, carried from the womb.
Even to your old age I will be the same, until you are gray I will carry you. I have done it; I will bear you; I will carry you; I will deliver you.
Listen, to Me, islands! Pay attention, peoples far away. Adonai called Me from the womb, from My mother’s belly He named Me.
“Listen to Me, you who pursue justice, you who seek Adonai. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug.
“Pay attention to Me, My people, give ear to Me, My nation. For Torah will go out from Me, My justice as a light to the peoples.
Listen to Me, you who know justice, a people with My Torah in their heart: Do not fear the taunt of men, nor be dismayed at their insults.
Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, so that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the trustworthy loyalty to David.
Now we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to His purpose.
but to those who are called (both Jewish and Greek people), Messiah, the power of God and the wisdom of God.
See now that I, I am He! There are no other gods beside Me. I bring death and give life, I have wounded but I will heal, and none can rescue from My hand.’
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
saying, “Write what you see in a scroll, and send it to Messiah’s seven communities—to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says Adonai Elohim, “Who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty!”
They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them—because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with Him are called and chosen and faithful.”
To the angel of Messiah’s community in Smyrna write: “Thus says the First and 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.