Isaiah 41:4

The answer.

calling the generations from the beginning i.e. guiding the destinies of the nations from the origins of human history. The clause should be connected with what follows: it belongs to the answer, not to the question ("He that calleth").

Iam he Cf. ch. Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 43:13; Isaiah 46:4; Isaiah 48:12, also Psalms 102:27. The sense which best suits the various passages is, "I am the same." There is probably an allusion to the explanation of the name Jehovah in Exodus 3:14 ff. Jehovah is "the First," existing before history began to run its course, and He is "with the last," an ever-present, unchanging God.