Isaiah 42 · Verse 8

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, King James Version

Isaiah 42:8 in other translations

BSBI am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.
WEB“I am the LORD. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.
ASVI am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.
YLTI am Jehovah, this is My name, And Mine honour to another I give not, Nor My praise to graven images.
DARBYI am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
BBEI am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.
WebsterI 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
8. God turns from addressing Messiah to the people. Lord--Jehovah: God's distinguishing and incommunicable name, indicating essential being and immutable faithfulness (compare Ex 6:3; Psa 83:18; 96:5; Ho 12:5). my--that is due to Me, and to Me alone.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 I am the Lord - אני יהוה ani Yehovah. This is the famous tetragrammaton, or name of four letters, which we write Jehovah Yehovah, Yehveh, Yeveh, Jhuh, Javah, etc. The letters are Y H U H. The Jews never pronounce it, and the true pronunciation is utterly unknown. That is my name - A name peculiar to myself.

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…

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Isaiah 42:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589
יְהוָ֖הYah.weh[am] YahwehH3068
ה֣וּאhu'thatH1931
שְׁמִ֑יshe.Mi[is] name myH8034
וּכְבוֹדִי֙u.khe.vo.Diand glory myH3519
לְאַחֵ֣רle.'a.Cherto anotherH312
לֹֽא\־lo'-notH3808
אֶתֵּ֔ן'e.TenI will giveH5414
וּתְהִלָּתִ֖יu.te.hi.la.Tiand praise myH8416
לַפְּסִילִֽים\׃la.pe.si.Limto <the> imagesH6456

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
that is.
Ex 3:13-15; 4:5; Ps 83:18; Joh 8:58
my glory.
48:11; Ex 20:3-5; 34:14; Joh 5:23

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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.

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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.
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.