(A)Who has performed and done this,
    calling the generations from the beginning?
(B)I, the Lord, the first,
    and with the last; I am he.

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13 (A)I am the Alpha and the Omega, (B)the first and the last, (C)the beginning and the end.”

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The Lord's Call to Israel

12 “Listen to me, O Jacob,
    and Israel, whom I called!
I am he; (A)I am the first,
    and I am the last.

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26 (A)Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know,
    and beforehand, that we might say, “He is right”?
There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed,
    none who heard your words.

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10 (A)declaring the end from the beginning
    and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, (B)‘My counsel shall stand,
    and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

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Besides Me There Is No God

Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel
    and (A)his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
(B)“I am the first and I am the last;
    besides me there is no god.
(C)Who is like me? Let him proclaim it.[a]
    Let him declare and set it before me,
since I appointed an ancient people.
    Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 44:7 Or Who like me can proclaim it?

10 (A)“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord,
    “and (B)my servant whom I have chosen,
that you may know and believe me
    and understand that I am he.
(C)Before me no god was formed,
    nor shall there be any after me.

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26 And (A)he made from one man every nation of mankind to live (B)on all the face of the earth, (C)having determined allotted periods and (D)the boundaries of their dwelling place,

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(A)Remember the days of old;
    consider the years of many generations;
(B)ask your father, and he will show you,
    your elders, and they will tell you.
When the Most High (C)gave to the nations their inheritance,
    when he (D)divided mankind,
he fixed the borders[a] of the peoples
    according to the number of the sons of God.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:8 Or territories
  2. Deuteronomy 32:8 Compare Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text sons of Israel

24 Who gave up Jacob to the looter,
    and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
    in whose ways they would not walk,
    and whose law they would not obey?

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To the Church in Smyrna

“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of (A)the first and the last, (B)who died and came to life.

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11 saying, (A)“Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

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