Isaiah 41:4

Who acts and carries out decrees? ¹  Who ²  summons the successive generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am present at the very beginning, and at the very end – I am the one. ³ 

De 32:7,8; Isa 40:12,26; Isa 41:26; Isa 42:24; Isa 43:10; Isa 44:6; Isa 44:7; Isa 46:3,4; Isa 46:10; Isa 48:3-7; Isa 48:12; Mt 1:23; Mt 28:20; Ac 15:18; Ac 17:26; Re 1:11,17; Re 2:8; Re 22:13

¹ tn Heb “Who acts and accomplishes?”; NASB “Who has performed and accomplished it.”

² tn The interrogative particle is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

³ tn Heb “I, the Lord, [am with] the first, and with the last ones I [am] he.”