Isaiah 41 4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

concordance

Exodus 3, 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM:
and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Strong’s 01961 Hayah

1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out

—a) (Qal)

——1) —–

———-a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass

———-b) to come about, come to pass

——2) to come into being, become

———-a) to arise, appear, come

———-b) to become

————-1) to become

————-2) to become like

————-3) to be instituted, be established

——3) to be

———a) to exist, be in existence

———b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)

———c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)

———d) to accompany, be with

 

Another translation would read: I AM THAT I WILL BE(COME)

Deuteronomy 6 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Concordance

KJV Ephesians 4 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 

2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling

5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Child to receive your heritage
upright out of a heart made pure

You fall to the ground
Like the earth awaits the seed
Where it receives the water
buds and springs forth
transcending the earth it came from

into my light it will grow
displaying its true beauty
bringing forth the seeds of life
that was my love and gift to you

If not the seed lays dormant
awaiting its fulfilment

First he appeared in the realm inanimate;
Thence came into the world of plants and lived
The plant-life many a year, nor called to mind
What he had been; then took the onward way
To animal existence, and once more
Remembers naught of what life vegetive,
Save when he feels himself moved with desire
Towards it in the season of sweet flowers,
As babes that seek the breast and know not why.
Again the wise Creator whom thou knowest
Uplifted him from animality
To Man’s estate; and so from realm to realm
Advancing, he became intelligent,
Cunning and keen of wit, as he is now.
No memory of his past abides with him,
And from his present soul he shall be changes.
Though he is fallen asleep, God will not leave him
In this forgetfulness. Awakened, he
Will laugh to think what troublous dreams he had.
And wonder how his happy state of being
He could forget, and not perceive that all
Those pains and sorrows were the effect of sleep
And guile and vain illusion. So this world
Seems lasting, though ’tis but the sleepers’ dream;
Who, when the appointed Day shall dawn, escapes
From dark imaginings that haunted him,
And turns with laughter on his phantom griefs
When he beholds his everlasting home.

R. A. Nicholson
‘Persian Poems’, an Anthology of verse translations
edited by A.J.Arberry, Everyman’s Library, 1972

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