'First' in the Bible

And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

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

The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

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

Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.