² Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.

⁶ Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever you had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

⁸ "To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: "The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last,

¹⁸ and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

¹¹ saying, "{TR adds "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last."}What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies{TR adds "which are in Asia"}: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega,{TR adds "the Beginning and the End"}" says the Lord God,{TR omits "God"} "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

¹⁰ And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

¹¹ They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does.

¹² As a mantle you will roll them up, And they will be changed; But you are the same. Your years will not fail."

² But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Being small among the clans of Judah, Out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

³⁴ At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

²² "Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, Before his deeds of old.

²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth existed.

¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations.

²⁴ I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

²⁵ Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁶ They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

²⁷ But you are the same. Your years will have no end.