4 Who has performed and done this,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord, fthe first,
and with the last; gI am he.
The Lord’s Call to Israel
12 “Listen to me, O Jacob,
and Israel, whom I called!
and I am the last.
8 r“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
17 When I saw him, I ffell at his feet as though dead. gBut he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, hI am the first and the last,
To the Church in Smyrna
8 “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of uthe first and the last, who vdied and came to life.
6 And he said to me, “It is done! aI am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the bwater of life cwithout payment.
13 aI am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
