For who will declare the things from the beginning, that we may know also the former things, and we will say that they are true? There is no one that speaks beforehand, nor anyone that hears your words.

Who has measured the water in His hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? [Even] He that brings forth His host by number; He shall call them all by name by [means of His] great glory, and by the power of His might; nothing has escaped you.

For what did He give Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God [do it] against whom they sinned? [And] they would not walk in His ways, nor hearken to His law.

Who is like Me? Let him stand, and call, and declare, and prepare for Me from the time that I made man forever; and let them tell you the things that are coming before they arrive.

declaring beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together; and I said, all My counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned;

and they that have proceeded out of My mouth, and it became well known; I wrought suddenly, and [the events] came to pass.

And I told you of old what [would be] before it came upon you; I made it known to you, lest you should say, [My] idols have done [it] for me; and should say, [My] graven and molten images have commanded me.

Now they come to pass, and not formerly; and you did not hear of them in former days; do not say, Yes, I know them.

Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages; ask your father, and he shall relate to you, [ask] your elders, and they shall tell you.

When the Most High divided the nations, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.

"Known from everlasting to God are all His works.

And He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, and He ordained their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Be My witnesses, and I [too am] a witness, says the Lord God, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know, and believe, and understand that I am [He]; before Me there was no other God, and after Me there shall be none.

Thus says God the King of Israel, and the God of hosts that delivered him; I am the First and I am the Last; beside Me there is no God.

Hear Me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call; I am the first, and I endure forever.

saying, "That which you see, write in a book and send to the seven churches: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as [if] dead. But He put His right hand on me, saying, "Do not fear; I am the First and the Last.

"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, 'These things says the First and the Last, who became dead, and came to life:

I [am] the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."

Hear Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by Me] from the womb, and taught [by Me] from infancy, [even] to old age;

I am [He]; and until you have grown old, I am [He]; I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.

"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us."

teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.