Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
Parallel translations
- WEB Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
- 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.
- 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 and today and forever.
- Gen 1:1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Ps 102:24–27I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
- Ps 93:2Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity.
- Rev 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.
- Ps 33:9For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.
- 1 Tim 6:15–16which the blessed and only Sovereign One—the King of kings and Lord of lords—will bring about in His own time.
- Heb 1:10–12And: “In the beginning, O Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
- Hab 1:12Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
- Isa 44:6Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
- Ps 146:6the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.
- Job 15:7Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
- Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Job 38:28–29Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
- Isa 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
- Job 38:4–6Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
- Ps 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
- Prov 8:25–26Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,
- Mic 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
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