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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.

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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.

15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,
    the creator of Israel, your King.

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21 Come close and declare;
    let them take counsel together:
Who announced this from the beginning,
    declared it from of old?
Was it not I, the Lord,
    besides whom there is no other God?
    There is no just and saving God but me.

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Things of the past I declared long ago,
    they went forth from my mouth, I announced them;
    then suddenly I took action and they came to be.

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12 Listen to me, Jacob,
    Israel, whom I called!
I, it is I who am the first,
    and am I the last.(A)

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15 For I am the Lord, your God,
    who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;
    the Lord of hosts by name.(A)

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For your husband is your Maker;
    the Lord of hosts is his name,
Your redeemer,[a] the Holy One of Israel,
    called God of all the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 54:5 Redeemer: cf. note on 41:14.