“From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”
- KJV Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
- BSB Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
- NKJV Indeed before the day was, I am He; And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?”
- NASB “Even from eternity I am He, And there is no one who can rescue from My hand; I act, and who can reverse it?”
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Quick answer
From eternity God is who He is, and no one can deliver from His hand or undo His work. It proclaims God's eternal sovereignty and unstoppable purpose.
Overview
God's existence and power are not bound by time; He is the unchanging 'I am he.' No power can rescue from His judgment or thwart His saving will. This sovereign assurance comforts His people and finds its echo in Christ, from whose hand no one can snatch His own.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 26
- Isa 14:27For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
- Isa 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
- Ps 90:2Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
- Heb 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- John 8:58Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM. ”
- 1 Tim 1:17Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Job 9:12Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
- Deut 32:39“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
- Rev 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega, ” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
- Isa 41:4Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
- Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Ps 93:2Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.
- Ps 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
- Mic 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
- Prov 8:23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.
- Hab 1:12Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
- Job 34:29When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
- Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
- Deut 28:31Your ox will be slain before your eyes, and you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
- Prov 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
- Job 34:14–15If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
- Dan 4:35All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
- John 1:1–2In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- Rom 9:18–19So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
- Hos 5:14For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
- Hos 2:10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
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