Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned! I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end.

“雅各、我所选召的以色列啊，当听我言：‘我是耶和华，我是首先的，也是末后的。

雅各—我所选召的以色列啊，当听从我：我是耶和华，我是首先的，也是末后的。

雅各—我所选召的以色列啊，当听从我：我是耶和华，我是首先的，也是末后的。

雅各，我所拣选的以色列啊，听我说！我是上帝，我是首先的，也是末后的。

“雅各，我所呼召的以色列啊！你要听我的话。我就是‘那位’，我是首先的，也是末后的。

“雅各——我所召唤的以色列啊，你要听我的话！我就是那一位；我是首先的，我也是末后的。

雅各－我所選召的以色列啊，當聽我言：我是耶和華，我是首先的，也是末後的。

雅各－我所選召的以色列啊，當聽從我：我是耶和華，我是首先的，也是末後的。

雅各－我所選召的以色列啊，當聽從我：我是耶和華，我是首先的，也是末後的。

雅各，我所揀選的以色列啊，聽我說！我是上帝，我是首先的，也是末後的。

“雅各，我所呼召的以色列啊！你要聽我的話。我就是‘那位’，我是首先的，也是末後的。

『雅各啊，聽我吧！我呼召的以色列啊，聽哦！是我；我是起始的；我也是末終的。

「雅各——我所召喚的以色列啊，你要聽我的話！我就是那一位；我是首先的，我也是末後的。

雅各我所選之以色列歟、爾其聽我、我乃耶和華、始我也、終亦我也、

雅各家以色列族我所遴選、宜聽我言、我乃始始之、終終之者也。

今爾雅各、我所選召之以色列、當聽我言、我乃主、我乃先者、我乃後者、

“ Listen to me, Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last.

“ Family of Jacob, listen to me. People of Israel, pay attention. I have chosen you. I am the first and the last. I am the Lord.

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

“ Listen to me, O family of Jacob, Israel my chosen one! I alone am God, the First and the Last.

“ Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, the one called by me: I am he; I am the first, I am also the last.

“ Listen to Me, Jacob, Israel whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.

“ Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last.

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

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

Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I[ am] he; I[ am] the first, I also[ am] the last.

“ Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

Who acts and carries out decrees? Who 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.

Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.

This is what the LORD, Israel’s king, says, their protector, the LORD who commands armies:“ I am the first and I am the last, there is no God but me.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end!)

“ I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God– the one who is, and who was, and who is still to come– the All- Powerful!

Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people who live far away! The LORD summoned me from birth; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.

“ Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.

I, I am the LORD, and there is no deliverer besides me.

saying:“ Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches– to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.

So the last will be first, and the first last.”

“ Listen to me, you who pursue godliness, who seek the LORD! Look at the rock from which you were chiseled, at the quarry from which you were dug!

Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who are aware of my law! Don’t be afraid of the insults of men; don’t be discouraged because of their abuse!

So now, sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak.

And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

“ So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

“ See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the LORD,“ and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.

They will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those accompanying the Lamb are the called, chosen, and faithful.”

Pay attention to me, my people! Listen to me, my people! For I will issue a decree, I will make my justice a light to the nations.

“ To the angel of the church in Smyrna write the following:“ This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who is the first and the last, the one who was dead, but came to life:

But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

When I saw him I fell down at his feet as though I were dead, but he placed his right hand on me and said:“ Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last,and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive– forever and ever– and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!