Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”
For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
“‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.
Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—
If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
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