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He pursues them, passing on without loss,
    by a path his feet scarcely touch.
Who has performed these deeds?
    Who has called forth the generations from the beginning?(A)
I, the Lord, am the first,
    and at the last[a] I am he.
The coastlands see, and fear;
    the ends of the earth tremble:
    they approach, they come on.

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Footnotes

  1. 41:4 The first…the last: God as the beginning and end encompasses all reality. The same designation is used in 44:6 and 48:12.

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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