Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.
- BSB Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity.
- 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 45:6Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
- Ps 90:2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
- Prov 8:22–23The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
- 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.
- Heb 13:8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
- Rev 2:8And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
- Rev 1:17–18And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
- Ps 145:13Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
- Dan 4:34And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
- 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:
- Ps 102:24–27I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
- Rev 1:11Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
- 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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