“Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.”
The summons 'Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last' reasserts God's uniqueness and eternal permanence against idolatry and the flux of history. The divine self-declaration echoes earlier assertions of incomparability, here grounded in temporal transcendence. The use of 'I am he' (ani hu) invokes the divine name and being itself. This verse establishes that the God calling Israel is the ultimate reality, stable amid all historical upheaval.
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