Before the world was... God

Psalm 90:1-2  A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.
Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Before the world was... God

Matthew Henry Commentary:
The favor and protection of God are the only sure rest and comfort of the soul in this evil world. Christ Jesus is the refuge and dwelling place to which we may repair. We are dying creatures; all our comforts in the world are dying comforts, but God is an ever-living God, and believers find Him so.

Isaac Taylor Commentary
The 90th Psalm might be cited as perhaps the most sublime of human compositions - the deepest in feeling - the loftiest in theologic conception - and the most magnificent in its imagery. True, it is in its report of human life - as troubled, transitory, and sinful. True in its conception of the Eternal - the most severe trials of their faith, lose not the confidence in Him; but who, in the firmness of faith, pray for, as if they were predicting, a near at hand season of refreshment. Wrapped, one might say, in mystery, until the distant day of revelation should come, there is here conveyed the doctrine of Immortality; for in the very plaint of the brevity of the life of man, and of the sadness of these, his few years of trouble, and their brevity, and their gloom, there is brought into contrast the Divine immutability. Yet, it is in terms of a submissive piety: The thought of a life eternal is here in embryo.

There is then that depth of feeling - mournful, reflective, and yet hopeful and trustful, apart from which poetry can win for itself no higher esteem than what we bestow upon other decorative arts, which minister to the demands of luxurious sloth.

Habakkuk 3:6 He stood, and measured the earth: He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: His ways are everlasting.