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 beside me there is no God.
KJV
Hæc dicit Dominus, rex Israël, et redemptor ejus, Dominus exercituum : Ego primus, et ego novissimus, et absque me non est deus.
Vulgate
Οὕτως λέγει ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ῥυσάμενος αὐτόν, θεὸς σαβαώθ Ἐγὼ πρῶτος καὶ ἐγὼ μετὰ ταῦτα, πλὴν ἐμοῦ οὐκ ἔστιν θεός.
LXX
Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
ASV
כֹּֽה אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֧ה מֶֽלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל וְ/גֹאֲל֖/וֹ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת אֲנִ֤י רִאשׁוֹן֙ וַ/אֲנִ֣י אַחֲר֔וֹן וּ/מִ/בַּלְעָדַ֖/י אֵ֥ין אֱלֹהִֽים
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 2 later passages.
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Rev 1:8 · paraphrase"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."Isaiah: I am the first and the last — the Alpha and the Omega
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Rev 1:17 · allusion"And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:"Isaiah: I am the first and the last — Christ claims the divine title
Themes
Historic Christian voices
12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§198Our profession of faith begins with God, for God is the First and the Last,1 The beginning and the end of everything. the Credo begins with God the Father, for the Father is the first divine person of the Most Holy Trinity; our Creed begins with the creation of heaven and earth, for creation is the beginning and the foundation of all God's works.
§212Over the centuries, Israel's faith was able to manifest and deepen realization of the riches contained in the revelation of the divine name. God is unique; there are no other gods besides him.24 He transcends the world and history. He made heaven and earth: "They will perish, but you endure; they will all wear out like a garment....but you are the same, and your years have no e…
1. When children are just brought to their learning, their teachers do not give them many tasks in succession, nor do they set them once for all, but they often repeat to them the same short ones, so that what is said may be easily implanted in their minds, and they may not be vexed at the first onset with the quantity, and with finding it hard to remember, and become less acti…
Chapter 1 In the first book of our answer to the work of Celsus, who had boastfully entitled the treatise which he had composed against us A True Discourse, we have gone through, as you enjoined, my faithful Ambrosius, to the best of our ability, his preface, and the parts immediately following it, testing each one of his assertions as we went along, until we finished with the …
Religion is that by which we are bound to God. True religion, or piety, is that which clings to God alone. For God is the one sure, immovable good, and he who trusts in any other thing than God worships a false god. The heart of man ever seeks rest and finds it in no created thing. Religion, therefore, takes its origin from God and tends toward God.
We all believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths that there is a single and simple spiritual being, whom we call God—eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, unchangeable, infinite, almighty; completely wise, just, and good, and the overflowing source of all good.
There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body or parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the maker and preserver of all things, both visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there are three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be His name, is the first and the last.
There is one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. Against the Manichaeans who posit two gods (one good, one evil), Cyril argues that the one God created all things good and that evil is the result of free will, not a rival divine principle. Against polytheism he declares that the God of Israel alone is God, and there is no other.
Cross-references
- 1Chr 17:20 — O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- 1Cor 8:4 — As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
- 1John 5:20 — And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
- 1Kgs 8:60 — That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
- 1Sam 2:2 — There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
- 1Tim 2:5 — For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
- 1Tim 3:16 — And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up int
- 2Kgs 5:15 — And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray t
- 2Kgs 19:15 — And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven an
- 2Sam 22:32 — For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
- Col 1:17 — And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
- Deut 4:35 — Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
- Deut 4:35 — Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
- Deut 4:39 — Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
- Deut 6:4 — Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
- Deut 6:4 — Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
- Deut 32:39 — See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
- Eph 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
- Exod 3:14 — And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
- Exod 6:3 — And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
- Heb 13:8 — Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
- Hos 13:4 — Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.
- Isa 33:22 — For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
- Isa 37:16 — O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
- Isa 37:20 — Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
- Isa 41:4 — Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
- Isa 41:4 — Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
- Isa 41:14 — Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
- Isa 41:14 — Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
- Isa 41:21 — Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
- Isa 42:8 — I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
- Isa 43:1 — But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
- Isa 43:10 — Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me
- Isa 43:10 — Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me
- Isa 43:11 — I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
- Isa 43:14 — Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
- Isa 43:14 — Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
- Isa 44:8 — Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
- Isa 44:8 — Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
- Isa 44:24 — Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;