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Selected Verse: Isaiah 42:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 42:8 |
Strong Concordance |
I am the LORD [03068]: that is my name [08034]: and my glory [03519] will I not give [05414] to another [0312], neither my praise [08416] to graven images [06456]. |
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King James |
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
God turns from addressing Messiah to the people.
Lord--JEHOVAH: God's distinguishing and incommunicable name, indicating essential being and immutable faithfulness (compare Exo 6:3; Psa 83:18; Psa 96:5; Hos 12:5).
my--that is due to Me, and to Me alone. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
I am the Lord - I am Yahweh. Here is also a change in the address. In the previous verses, God had addressed the Messiah. Here he turns to the people, and assures them that he is the only true God, and that he will not suffer the praise that is due to him to be given to any other, or to any graven image. The name Yahweh signifies being, or essential existence (see the note at Isa 1:9). It is a name which is given to none but the true God, and which is everywhere in the Scriptures used to distinguish him from all others.
That is my name - That is the name which I have chosen by which to distinguish myself from all idols, and which I regard as appropriately expressive of my existence and perfections. Thus it is used in Psa 83:18 (compare Psa 96:5). "And my glory." The glory, honor, or praise that is due to me.
Will I not give - I will not allow it to ascribed to another; I will not allow another to assume or receive the honor which is due to me.
To another - To any other; whether it be man, or whether it be an idol. God claims that all appropriate honors should be rendered to him, and that men should cherish no opinions, maintain no doctrines, indulge in no feelings, that would be derogatory to the honor of his name. This declaration is designed to counteract the propensity everywhere manifest to attribute to man that which belongs to God, or to ascribe to our own wisdom, skill, or power, that which he alone can accomplish.
Neither my praise - The praise which is due to me. He would not permit graven images to receive the praise of having done that which he himself had accomplished. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Jehovah pledges His name and honour that this work of the Servant of Jehovah will be carried into effect. "I am Jehovah; that is my name, and my glory I give not to another, nor my renown to idols." That is His name, which affirms how truly He stands alone in His nature, and recals to mind the manifestations of His life, His power, and His grace from the very earliest times (cf., Exo 3:15). He to whom this name belongs cannot permit the honour due to Him to be permanently transferred to sham gods. He has therefore made preparations for putting an end to idolatry. Cyrus does this provisionally by the tempestuous force of arms; and the Servant of Jehovah completes it by the spiritual force of His simple word, and of His gentle, unselfish love. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The Lord - Heb. Jehovah: who have all being in and of myself, and give being to all my creatures. The everlasting, and unchangeable, and omnipotent God, who therefore both can, and will fulfil all my promises. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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. |
5 Even the LORD [03068] God [0430] of hosts [06635]; the LORD [03068] is his memorial [02143].
5 For all the gods [0430] of the nations [05971] are idols [0457]: but the LORD [03068] made [06213] the heavens [08064].
18 That men may know [03045] that thou, whose name [08034] alone is JEHOVAH [03068], art the most high [05945] over all the earth [0776].
3 And I appeared [07200] unto Abraham [085], unto Isaac [03327], and unto Jacob [03290], by the name of God [0410] Almighty [07706], but by my name [08034] JEHOVAH [03068] was I not known [03045] to them.
5 For all the gods [0430] of the nations [05971] are idols [0457]: but the LORD [03068] made [06213] the heavens [08064].
18 That men may know [03045] that thou, whose name [08034] alone is JEHOVAH [03068], art the most high [05945] over all the earth [0776].
9 Except [03884] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635] had left [03498] unto us a very small [04592] remnant [08300], we should have been [01961] as Sodom [05467], and we should have been like [01819] unto Gomorrah [06017].
15 And God [0430] said [0559] moreover [05750] unto Moses [04872], Thus shalt thou say [0559] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478], The LORD [03068] God [0430] of your fathers [01], the God [0430] of Abraham [085], the God [0430] of Isaac [03327], and the God [0430] of Jacob [03290], hath sent [07971] me unto you: this is my name [08034] for ever [05769], and this is my memorial [02143] unto all [01755] generations [01755].