I am the first and I am the last.^(B)
There is no God but me.^(C)

⁸ Do not be startled or afraid.
Have I not told you and declared it long ago?
You are my witnesses!^(A)
Is there any God but me?^(B)
There is no other Rock;^(C) I do not know any.

⁵ I am the Lord, and there is no other;^(A)
there is no God but me.^(B)
I will strengthen^[a] you,
though you do not know me,
⁶ so that all may know from the rising of the sun to its setting
that there is no one but me.^(C)
I am the Lord, and there is no other.