Isaiah 42:8

I am the Lord, this is my name; I shall not give my glory to another, and my praising to graven images. (I am the Lord, that is my name; I shall not give my glory to another, nor my praises to carved idols.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

In Context

7That thou shouldest open the eyes of blind men; that thou shouldest lead out of enclosing together a bound man, (and) from the house of prison men sitting in darknesses. (So that thou shouldest open the eyes of the blind; and that thou shouldest lead out the bound, or the prisoners, from being enclosed, yea, those sitting in darkness, from out of the prison house.)

9Lo! those things that were the first, be come, and (now) I tell new things; I shall make heard to you, before that those begin to be made. (Behold! those things that were to come first, have come to pass, and now I shall tell of new things; yea, before that they begin to be made, I shall tell you of them.)

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Cross References

Exodus 3:14The Lord said to Moses, I am that I am. (And) The Lord said, Thus thou shalt say to the sons of Israel, He that is, sent me to you.

Exodus 20:3Thou shalt not have alien gods before me. (Thou shalt not have foreign, or other, gods in place of me or instead of me.)

Psalms 83:18And know they, that Lord is name to thee; thou alone art the Highest in every land. (And then they shall know, that The Lord is thy name; and that thou alone art the Most High in all the earth.)

Isaiah 48:5I before-said to thee from that time; before that those things came, I showed (them) to thee; lest peradventure thou wouldest say, Mine idols did these things, and my graven images, and my molten images, sent these things, (I told thee before the time; before that those things came, I showed them to thee; lest thou wouldest say, My idols did these things, yea, my carved idols, and my cast idols, have commanded these things to be.)

Isaiah 48:11I shall do for me, that I be not blasphemed, (or I shall do it for my own sake, so that I be not blasphemed), and I shall not give my glory to another.

John 5:23(so) that all men honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father that sent him.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 42:6-13

The Messiah's Approach. ( b. c. 708.) 5 Thus saith God the Lord , he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: 6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that… Read the whole commentary →

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