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Who acts and carries out decrees?[a]
Who[b] 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.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 41:4 tn Heb “Who acts and accomplishes?”; NASB “Who has performed and accomplished it.”
  2. Isaiah 41:4 tn The interrogative particle is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).
  3. Isaiah 41:4 tn Heb “I, the Lord, [am with] the first, and with the last ones I [am] he.”

Who has done this and carried it through,
    calling(A) forth the generations from the beginning?(B)
I, the Lord—with the first of them
    and with the last(C)—I am he.(D)

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