Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art 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.
- 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 the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
- Gen 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Ps 102:24–27I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
- Ps 93:2Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
- Rev 1:8I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
- Ps 33:9For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
- 1 Tim 6:15–16Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
- Heb 1:10–12And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
- Hab 1:12Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
- Isa 44:6Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
- Ps 146:6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
- Job 15:7Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
- Isa 57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
- Job 38:28–29Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
- Isa 45:22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
- Job 38:4–6Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
- Ps 103:17But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
- Prov 8:25–26Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
- Mic 5:2But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
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