Isaiah 48:12
Good News Translation
The LORD says, "Listen to me, Israel, the people I have called! I am God, the first, the last, the only God!

New Revised Standard Version
Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.

Contemporary English Version
Israel, my chosen people, listen to me. I alone am the LORD, the first and the last.

New American Bible
Listen to me, Jacob, Israel, whom I called! I, it is I who am the first, and am I the last.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.

hearken

Isaiah 34:1 Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and every thing that cometh forth of it.

Isaiah 46:3 They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.

Isaiah 49:1 Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been mindful of my name.

Isaiah 51:1,4,7 Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out. . . .

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

Proverbs 7:24 Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.

Proverbs 8:32 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

O Jacob.

my called

Matthew 20:16 So shall the last be first and the first last. For many are called but few chosen.

Romans 1:6 Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ:

Romans 8:28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

1 Corinthians 1:24 But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Revelation 17:14 These shall fight with the Lamb. And the Lamb shall overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and they that are with him are called and elect and faithful.

I am he

Isaiah 41:4 Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last.

Isaiah 44:6 Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.

Deuteronomy 32:39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Revelation 1:8,11,17,18 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. . . .

Revelation 2:8 And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead and is alive:

Revelation 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Context
Deliverance Promised to Israel
12Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.13My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath measured the heavens: I shall call them, and they shall stand together.…
Cross References
Revelation 1:17
And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying: Fear not. I am the First and the Last,

Revelation 2:8
And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead and is alive:

Revelation 22:13
I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Isaiah 40:26
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing.

Isaiah 41:4
Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last.

Isaiah 43:10
You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself am. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none.

Isaiah 44:6
Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.

Isaiah 46:4
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.

Isaiah 51:1
Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.

Isaiah 48:11
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