Isaiah 42:8
I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isaiah 42:8 in other translations
| BSB | I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols. |
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| WEB | “I am the LORD. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images. |
| ASV | I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images. |
| YLT | I am Jehovah, this is My name, And Mine honour to another I give not, Nor My praise to graven images. |
| DARBY | I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. |
| BBE | I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images. |
| Webster | I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. |
What does Isaiah 42:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 42:5-12
The work of redemption brings back man to the obedience he owes to God as his Maker. Christ is the light of the world. And by his grace he opens the understandings Satan has blinded, and sets at liberty from the bondage of sin. The Lord has supported his church. And now he makes new promises, which shall as certainly be fulfilled as the old ones were. When the Gentiles are brought into the church, he is glorified in…
Isaiah 42:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 42:8
- Isaiah 48:11
For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
- Isaiah 43:11
I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.
- Exodus 34:14
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
- Exodus 20:3-5
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Psalms 83:18
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.
- Exodus 3:13-15
And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
- Exodus 4:5
That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
- John 5:23
That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
- John 8:58
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
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Context
- Isaiah 42:7
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
- Isaiah 42:8
I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
- Isaiah 42:9
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Isaiah 42:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Yo Jehová: este es mi nombre; y á otro no daré mi gloria, ni mi alabanza á esculturas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Je suis l’ Éternel: c’est là mon nom; et je ne donnerai pas ma gloire à un autre, ni ma louange à des images taillées. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ich bin Jehova, das ist mein Name; und meine Ehre gebe ich keinem anderen, noch meinen Ruhm den geschnitzten Bildern. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ego Dominus, hoc est nomen meum; gloriam meam alteri non dabo, et laudem meam sculptilibus. |