The Lord is the everlasting God,The Creator of the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 40:28

Of the ends of the earth; of all the earth, and the inhabitants thereof, from one end to another. He seems to mention the ends or utmost bounds, because they might seem to be more out of the reach and care of God’s providence, as being most remote from Jerusalem, the only place of God’s solemn and public worship in the world, and is then thought to be uninhabited. The argument is clear and strong: God, who made all, even the most desolate and barbarous parts of the earth, and consequently takes care of them, will not neglect his own land and people.

Fainteth not, neither is weary; he is not by age or hard labour become weak and unable to help his people, as men are apt to be.

There is no searching of his understanding; his counsels, by which he governeth all the world, and in a most particular manner thine affairs, are far above the reach of thy understanding; and therefore thou dost ignorantly and foolishly in passing so rash a censure upon the ways and works of the infinitely wise God.

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I am the Alpha and the Omega

I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

(Rev. 1:8)

Alpha and the Omega is a name of God in two verses and a name of Jesus (Yeshua‘) in one verse. It describes them using the alphabet as if to say that they span the whole alphabet and extend beyond it. The Message Bible captures the sense by using the English phrase “A to Z.” It is possible that the Hebrew letters aleph and tau were used to convey God’s eternal n ature before the Greek ones.

There are similar ideas expressed in other names for God in the Old Testament: He is the Creator and Maker of all things. The nearest equivalent is the statement that God is the First and the Last. In the New Testament, Jesus is the Beginning and the end, and again the First and the Last.

I am who I am!

“I Am Who I Am. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to 

you.” Exodus 3:14

This signifies the real being of God, his self-existence, and that he is the Being of beings; as also it denotes his eternity and immutability, and his constancy and faithfulness in fulfilling his promises, for it includes all time, past, present, and to come; and the sense is, not only I am what I am at present, but I am what I have been, and I am what I shall be, and shall be what I am. The Platonists and Pythagoreans seem to have borrowed their (to on) from hence, which expresses with them the eternal and invariable Being; and so the Septuagint version here is (o wn) : it is said  that the temple of Minerva at Sais, a city of Egypt, had this inscription on it,

“I am all that exists, is, and shall be.”

And on the temple of Apollo at Delphos was written (ei), the contraction of (eimi), “I am”

. Our Lord seems to refer to this name, (John 8:58) , and indeed is the person that now appeared; and the words may be rendered, "I shall be what I shall be”

The incarnate God, God manifest in the flesh:

thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto

you or as the Targum of Jonathan has it,

“I am he that is, and that shall be.”

This is the name Ehjeh or Jehovah, Moses is empowered to make use of, and to declare, as the name of the Great God by whom he was sent; and which might serve both to encourage him and strengthen the faith of the Israelites, that they should be delivered by him.

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I am the Jehovah

“Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Jehovah.”

Leviticus 26:2 

"The seventh day Sabbaths", 

and the seventh year sabbaths; especially the former are meant. In which religious worship was given to the one true and living God. And therefore, the observance of them is strictly enjoined. And hence this law follows closely upon the former, though Aben Ezra restrains it to the sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, as he applies the sanctuary in the following clause to the jubilee year, which is said to be holy (Lev. 26:12). Supposing that this refers unto and stands in strict connection with the laws of the preceding chapter, concerning the sabbatical (Lev. 25:1), and jubilee years (Lev. 25:8).

“And reverence my sanctuary”: 

By attending in it, and on the worship in it, with reverence and godly fear (see Lev. 19:30).

“I am the Jehovah”: 

Who had a right to such religious worship, and to command such things, in which he ought to be obeyed, his sabbaths kept, and sanctuary reverenced. “And reverence my sanctuary”, by attending in it, and on the worship in it, with reverence and godly fear.