³⁹ See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.

¹ Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

⁶ The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.

²² Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

⁵ I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:

¹⁸ For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.

¹³ From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?

⁴ Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.

⁷ But the king of Israel, after reading the letter, was greatly troubled and said, Am I God, to give death and life? why does this man send a leper to me to be made well? is it not clear that he is looking for a cause of war?

⁴ Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.

²⁰ Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

²² Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:

¹⁸ For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one;

¹⁸ And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.

¹² Give ear to me, Jacob, and Israel, my loved one; I am he, I am the first and I am the last.

³⁵ All this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and there is no other.

²⁷ But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.

⁸ Your hand is lifted up against those who are against you, and all your haters will be cut off.

²⁴ For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

¹² They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.

¹¹ Saying, What you see, put in a book, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

⁸ And to the angel of the church in Smyrna say: These things says the first and the last, who was dead and is living:

⁷ Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?