Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, LORD, the first, and with the last, I am he.

New American Standard Bible

Who has performed and accomplished it,
Calling forth the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord, am the first, and with the last. I am He.’”

King James Version

Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

Holman Bible

Who has performed and done this,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, Yahweh, am the first,
and with the last—I am He.”

International Standard Version

Who has performed and carried this out, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD the first and will be with the last I am the One!"

American Standard Version

Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last, I am he.

Amplified


“Who has performed and done this,
Calling forth [and guiding the destinies of] the generations [of the nations] from the beginning?
‘I, the Lord—the first, and with the last [existing before history began, the ever-present, unchanging God]—I am He.’”

Bible in Basic English

Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.

Darby Translation

Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first; and with the last, I am HE.

Julia Smith Translation

Who made and did, calling the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah, the first, and with the last; I am he.

King James 2000

Who has performed and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Who has accomplished and done [this], calling the generations from [the] {beginning}? I, Yahweh, [am] first; and I [am] the one with [the] last.

Modern King James verseion

Who has planned and done it, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, am the first and the last; I am He.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Who hath made, created, and called the generations from the beginning? Even I the LORD, which am the first, and with the last.

NET Bible

Who acts and carries out decrees? Who summons the successive generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am present at the very beginning, and at the very end -- I am the one.

New Heart English Bible

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last, I am he."

The Emphasized Bible

Who hath wrought and performed, Calling the generations, in advance? I, Yahweh, who am First, And with them who are last, I, am the Same!

Webster

Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

World English Bible

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he."

Youngs Literal Translation

Who hath wrought and done, Calling the generations from the first? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last I am He.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּעל 
Pa`al 
Usage: 57

it, calling
קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

דּר דּור 
Dowr 
Usage: 167

ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

I the Lord

Usage: 0

the first
ראשׁן ראשׁון 
Ri'shown 
Usage: 182

and with the last
אחרן אחרין 
'acharown 
Usage: 50

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

God

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

God Helps Israel

3 He pursues them, and passes on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet. 4 Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, LORD, the first, and with the last, I am he. 5 The isles have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble, they draw near, and come.


Cross References

Isaiah 41:26

Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know, and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] right? Yea, there is none who declares. Yea, there is none who shows. Yea, there is none who hears your words.

Isaiah 48:12

Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I also am the last.

Revelation 1:17

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not, I am the first and the last,

Revelation 22:13

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

Isaiah 43:10

Ye are my witnesses, says 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, nor shall there be after me.

Isaiah 46:10

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure,

Isaiah 44:6-7

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

Revelation 1:8

I am the Alpha and the Omega, says Lord, the God who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.

Deuteronomy 32:7-8

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask thy father, and he will show thee, thine elders, and they will tell thee.

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number. He calls them all by name, by the greatness of his might. And because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Isaiah 42:24

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not LORD? He against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, nor were they obedient to his law.

Isaiah 46:3-4

Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne [by me] from their birth, who have been carried from the womb.

Isaiah 48:3-7

I have declared the former things from of old. Yea, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them. Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

Matthew 1:23

Behold, the virgin will have in her womb, and will bring forth a son. And they will call his name Immanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.

Matthew 28:20

teaching them to observe all things, as many as I commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the days, until the end of the age. Truly.

Acts 15:18

Known to God from the age are all his works.

Acts 17:26

And he made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined prescribed times, and the limits of their occupancy,

Revelation 1:11

saying, What thou see, write in a book and send to the seven congregations: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

Revelation 2:8

And to the agent of the congregation in Smyrna write, These things says the first and the last, who became dead, and lived:

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