'First' in the Bible

I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, a faithful town.'

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

I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;' and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: "I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

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

For thus says the Lord Yahweh, "My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together," says Yahweh, "who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom."