Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.
- KJV Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
- NKJV Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting.
- NASB Your throne is established from of old; You are from eternity.
- NLT Your throne, O Lord, has stood from time immemorial. You yourself are from the everlasting past.
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Quick answer
God's throne is established from of old, for He Himself is from everlasting. God's rule is eternal, with no beginning and no end.
Overview
The stability of the world (v.1) rests on the eternity of God's throne. Before creation existed, God reigned, and His kingship is as everlasting as His own being. This eternal throne is shared by the eternal Son, whose kingdom has no end (Hebrews 1:8; Luke 1:33).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 45:6Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
- Ps 90:2Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
- Prov 8:22–23The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
- Rev 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.
- Heb 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
- Rev 2:8To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life.
- Rev 1:17–18When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,
- Ps 145:13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful in all His words and kind in all His actions.
- Dan 4:34But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rev 1:11saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
- 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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