Isaiah 42:8

God's holiness Praise and worship

⁶ “I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

⁷ to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.

⁹ Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

¹⁰ Sing to the LORD a new song— His praise from the ends of the earth— you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.
KJV: I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
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.
DARBY: I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
BLB: I [am] YHWH—that [is] My name! And My glory I will not give to another, or My praise to the idols.

ÅB: Jeg er Herren, det er mitt navn, og jeg gir ikke noen annen min ære eller de utskårne bilder min pris.
OTB: Jeg er Herren; dette er mitt navn! Jeg vil ikke gi min ære til en annen, eller min pris til avguder.
B1930: Jeg er Herren, det er mitt navn, og jeg gir ikke nogen annen min ære eller de utskårne billeder min pris.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 48:11
For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
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Isaiah 43:11
I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.
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Exodus 34:14
For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
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Exodus 20:3–5
You shall have no other gods before Me.
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Psalms 83:18
May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
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Exodus 3:13–15
Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?”
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Exodus 4:5
“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
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John 5:23
so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
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