Verses about who god is

Hear, Israel: YHWH our Elohim, YHWH is one. You shall love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

I am YHWH, and there is no other; besides me there is no Elohim; I will gird you, though you have not known me, so that they may know from the rising of the sun and from its west that there is nothing besides me; I am YHWH, and there is no other;

Remember the former things of ages past, for I am El, and there is no other; I am Elohim, and there is nothing like me; declaring from the beginning the end, and from of old what has not been done; saying, ‘My counsel will stand, and all my desire I will do’;

“I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves. You shall have no other gods before me.

But our Elohim is in the heavens; all that he pleases he does. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of the hands of man. They have a mouth, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear; they have a nose, but do not smell; their hands, but they do not feel; their feet, but they do not walk; they make no sound in their throat. Like them will be those who make them, everyone who trusts in them.

So, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus the Messiah, through whom are all things, and we through him.

A prayer of Moses, the man of Elohim. Adonai, you have been a dwelling place for us from generation to generation. Before the mountains were born, or you gave birth to the earth and the world, even from forever to forever you are El. You turn back the mortal to dust, and say, “Return, human beings.” For a thousand years in your eyes are like the day of yesterday when it passes, and like a watch in the night.

Where shall I go from your spirit, and where from your face shall I flee? If I go up to the heavens, there you are; and if I make my bed in Sheol, look, you are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell at the farthest end of the sea, even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will take hold of me. And if I say, “Surely darkness will cover me, and the light around me become night,” even darkness is not dark to you, and the night shines like the day; as the darkness, so the light.

For thus says the High and Lifted Up One, who inhabits eternity, and Holy is his name: “In the high and holy place I dwell, and with the crushed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the crushed.

But will Elohim truly live on the earth? Look, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

They will perish, but you will remain; and all of them like a garment will wear out; like clothing you will change them, and they will pass away. But you are the same, and your years will not come to an end. The sons of your servants will dwell, and their offspring before you will be established.”

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

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though needing anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and all things; and he made from one every nation of humanity to live on all the face of the earth, having determined appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling, to seek God, if perhaps they might grope for him and find him; and yet he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and are, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

Am I an Elohim near at hand, declares YHWH, and not an Elohim far off? Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I do not see him? declares YHWH. Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? declares YHWH.

And YHWH passed by before him and proclaimed, “YHWH, YHWH, an El merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, calling to account the iniquity of fathers on sons and on sons’ sons, to the third and to the fourth generation.”

Merciful and gracious is YHWH, slow to anger and abounding in loyal love. He will not always contend, nor forever will he bear a grudge. Not according to our sins has he dealt with us, nor according to our iniquities has he repaid us. For as the height of the heavens above the earth, so strong is his loyal love over those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far he has removed from us our transgressions. As a father has compassion on his sons, YHWH has compassion on those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that dust we are.

Gracious and merciful is YHWH, slow to anger and great in loyal love. Good is YHWH to all, and his compassion is over all his works.

And he got up and went to his own father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and running, he fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly, bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; and bring the fattened calf, slaughter it, and let us eat and celebrate, because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, so as not to have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

When Israel was a boy, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. They called to them; so they went from before them; to the Baals they sacrificed, and to the carved images they burned incense. And I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; but they did not know that I healed them. With cords of humankind I drew them, with ropes of love; and I was to them like those who lift the yoke from their jaws; and I bent down to him and fed him.

And he prayed to YHWH and said, “I beg you, YHWH, was this not my word while I was still in my land? That is why I hurried to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are El, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, and one who relents concerning evil.

Who is an El like you, forgiving iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, for he delights in loyal love. He will again have mercy on us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast into the depths of the sea all their sins.

Moses said to Elohim, “Look, if I come to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘The Elohim of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” Elohim said to Moses, “I will be who I will be.” And he said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘Ehyeh has sent me to you.’” Elohim also said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my remembrance from generation to generation.

Elohim spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as El Shaddai, but by my name, YHWH, I did not make myself known to them.

For the director. On the Gitit. A psalm of David. YHWH, our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth, you who have set your splendor above the heavens. From the mouth of children and of nursing infants you have founded strength because of your adversaries, to put an end to the enemy and the one who takes vengeance.

A tower of strength is the name of YHWH; into it the righteous runs and is set on high.

I have revealed your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

I am YHWH; that is my name; and my glory to another I will not give, nor my praise to carved images.

So you pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be sanctified;

Therefore God also highly exalted him and granted him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus the Messiah is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.