" Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell [Me,] if you have understanding.

To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills, I was brought forth;

While as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, Or the primeval dust of the world.

For He spoke, and it was [done;] He commanded, and it stood fast.

Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that [is] in them; Who keeps truth forever,

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Your throne [is] established from of old; You [are] from everlasting.

I said, "O my God, Do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years [are] throughout all generations.

They will perish, but You will endure; Yes, they will all grow old like a garment; Like a cloak You will change them, And they will be changed.

But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting On those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children's children,

" 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.

For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name [is] Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy [place,] With him [who] has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

" But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, [Though] you are little among the thousands of Judah, [Yet] out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth [are] from of old, From everlasting."

Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them for correction.

which He will manifest in His own time, [He who is] the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom [be] honor and everlasting power. Amen.

And: "You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Like a cloak You will fold them up, And they will be changed. But You are the same, And Your years will not fail."

Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, today, and forever.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, [the] Beginning and [the] End," says the Lord, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

"Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I [am] God, and [there is] no other.