Isaiah 48:17

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

“A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

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,

“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:

“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

“But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”

“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

They set up over his head the accusation against him written, “THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.”

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.

He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.