Isaiah 48:12 "Listen to me, Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Listen to me, Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last.

English Standard Version
“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.

New American Standard Bible
"Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.

King James Bible
Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Listen to Me, Jacob, and Israel, the one called by Me: I am He; I am the first, I am also the last.

International Standard Version
"Listen to these things, Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called. I am the One: I am the first, I am even the last.

American Standard Version
Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.

Darby Bible Translation
Hearken unto me, Jacob, and thou Israel, my called. I am HE; I, the first, and I, the last.

Young's Literal Translation
Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called one, I am He, I am first, and I am last;

Cross References

Revelation 1:17
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying to me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

Revelation 2:8
And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things said the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;

Revelation 22:13
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Isaiah 40:26
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings out their host by number: he calls them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one fails.

Isaiah 41:4
Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

Isaiah 43:10
You are my witnesses, said the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

Isaiah 44:6
Thus said the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

Isaiah 46:4
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

Isaiah 51:1
Listen to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the LORD: look to the rock from where you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from where you are dig.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

48:9-15 We have nothing ourselves to plead with God, why he should have mercy upon us. It is for his praise, to the honour of his mercy, to spare. His bringing men into trouble was to do them good. It was to refine them, but not as silver; not so thoroughly as men refine silver. If God should take that course, they are all dross, and, as such, might justly be put away. He takes them as refined in part only. Many have been brought home to God as chosen vessels, and a good work of grace begun in them, in the furnace of affliction. It is comfort to God's people, that God will secure his own honour, therefore work deliverance for them. And if God delivers his people, he cannot be at a loss for instruments to be employed. God has formed a plan, in which, for his own sake, and the glory of his grace, he saves all that come to Him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12-15. The Almighty, who has founded heaven and earth, can, and will, restore His people.

the first … last—(Isa 41:4; 44:6).