² Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou `art' God.

⁸ `I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'

² And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth -- to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth `are' of old, From the days of antiquity.

²⁴ I say, `My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations `are' Thine years.

²⁵ Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands `are' the heavens.

²⁶ They -- They perish, and Thou remainest, And all of them as a garment become old, As clothing Thou changest them, And they are changed.

²⁷ And Thou `art' the same, and Thine years are not finished.

² Established is Thy throne since then, From the age Thou `art'.

⁷ The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?

¹ In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

⁸ Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

¹⁰ and, `Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;

¹¹ these shall perish, and Thou dost remain, and all, as a garment, shall become old,

¹² and as a mantle Thou shall roll them together, and they shall be changed, and Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.'

¹⁵ which in His own times He shall shew -- the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords,

¹⁶ who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom `is' honour and might age-during! Amen.

¹² Art not Thou of old, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We do not die, O Jehovah, For judgment Thou hast appointed it, And, O Rock, for reproof Thou hast founded it.

¹⁵ For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy `is' His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'

²² Turn to Me, and be saved, all ends of the earth, For I `am' God, and there is none else.

⁶ Thus said Jehovah, king of Israel, And his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: `I `am' the first, and I the last, And besides Me there is no God.

²⁵ Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.

²⁶ While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.

⁶ Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that `is' in them, Who is keeping truth to the age,

¹⁷ And the kindness of Jehovah `Is' from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons,

⁹ For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.

²⁸ Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

²⁹ From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?

⁴ Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

⁵ Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

⁶ On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?