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He pursues them and passes by safely.
His feet do not touch the ground.[a]
Who accomplished this and carried it out
by summoning generations from the beginning?

The Lord Controls History

I, the Lord, am the first,
and at the very end I will still be the one.
The coastlands see and fear.
The ends of the earth tremble.
They draw near. They come.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:3 Literally he does not enter a path with his feet. This seems to mean that he moves so fast that his feet don’t touch the ground, or that he goes in new paths where he has never gone before, or that he quickly gains new territory.

He pursues them and moves on unscathed,(A)
    by a path his feet have not traveled before.
Who has done this and carried it through,
    calling(B) forth the generations from the beginning?(C)
I, the Lord—with the first of them
    and with the last(D)—I am he.(E)

The islands(F) have seen it and fear;
    the ends of the earth(G) tremble.
They approach and come forward;

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He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

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 isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.

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