Your throne is established from of old; You are from 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.
- BSB Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity.
- NKJV Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting.
- 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, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
- Ps 90:2Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
- Prov 8:22–23“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.
- 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.”
- Heb 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- Rev 2:8“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
- Rev 1:17–18When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,
- Ps 145:13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.
- Dan 4:34At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
- Heb 1:10–12And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.
- Ps 102:24–27I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
- Rev 1:11saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
- 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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