Isaiah 63:16

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

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.

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.”

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

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

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

“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.

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

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.

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

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.

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:

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

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.”

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

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.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

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

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.”

and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

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.”

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

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

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?

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

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

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

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

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.

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.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

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.

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;

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;

Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.

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.

Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

“ ‘ “If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

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.