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.

10  ^f“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord,

“and my servant whom I have chosen,

that you may know and believe me

and understand that ^gI am he.

Before me no god was formed,

nor shall there be any after me.

11  I, I am the Lord,

and ^hbesides me there is no savior.

12  I declared and saved and proclaimed,

when there was no strange god among you;

and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God.

13  Also henceforth I am he;

there is none who can deliver from my hand;

I work, and ⁱwho can turn it back?”

25  “I, I am he

who ^sblots out your transgressions ^tfor my own sake,

and I will not ^uremember your sins.

18  For thus says the Lord,

^gwho created the heavens

(he is God!),

who formed the earth and made it

(he established it;

he did not create it empty,

he formed it to be inhabited!):

“I am the Lord, and there is no other.

12  “I, I am he who comforts you;

who are you that you are ^tafraid of man who dies,

of the son of man who is made ^ulike grass,