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.

Who has measured the waters 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?

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?

Calling

Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. 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.

declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'

"The former things I declared of old; they went out from my mouth, and I announced them; then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

known from of old.'

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

I the lord

"You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, 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.

Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

"Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.

saying, "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."

"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."

With the

"Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb;

"Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel"(which means, God with us).

teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

General references

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."