Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
Parallel translations
- KJV Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
- BSB Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
- NKJV Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
- NASB Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
- NLT Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God.
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Quick answer
Before creation existed, God already was; He is eternal, from everlasting to everlasting.
Overview
Moses contrasts God's eternity with the recent, created order, even the mountains had a beginning, but God did not. "From everlasting to everlasting" affirms God's timeless, self-existent being. This eternal God is revealed in the eternal Son, through whom all things were made (John 1:1-3; Col. 1:16-17).
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Cross-references · 19
- Heb 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- Gen 1:1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- Ps 102:24–27I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
- Ps 93:2Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.
- 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.”
- Ps 33:9For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
- 1 Tim 6:15–16which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
- Heb 1:10–12And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.
- 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.
- Isa 44:6This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
- Ps 146:6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;
- Job 15:7“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
- 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.
- Job 38:28–29Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
- Isa 45:22“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
- Job 38:4–6“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
- Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
- Prov 8:25–26Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;
- 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.
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