Isaiah 42:8

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

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — Yahweh speaks to Israel, bracketing the Servant's commission (v. 7) with a declaration of His exclusive claim on glory before announcing new things (v. 9).

The words — כְּבוֹד (kavod, "glory," lit. weight, honor) is the object withheld; שֵׁם (shem, "name") is the identity marker that makes the withholding a matter of who Yahweh is, not mere preference.

The thread — The same formula recurs in Isaiah 48:11 ("I will not yield My glory to another"), is reinforced by the exclusive savior claim of Isaiah 43:11, and echoes the jealous-name warning of Exodus 34:14.

Why it lands — It forces a practical audit: every praise, every dependence, every "glory" attributed to a person, institution, or power is a direct violation of this claim.

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The Hebrew words

אֲנִ֥י'a.NiI יְהוָ֖הYah.weh[am] Yahweh ה֣וּאhu'that שְׁמִ֑יshe.M/i[is] name/ my וּכְבוֹדִי֙u./khe.vo.D/iand/ glory/ my לְאַחֵ֣רle./'a.Cherto/ another לֹֽא־lo'-not אֶתֵּ֔ן'e.TenI will give וּתְהִלָּתִ֖יu./te.hi.la.T/iand/ praise/ my לַפְּסִילִֽים׃la./pe.si.Limto <the>/ images

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.

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.
Isaiah 43:11 I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.
Exodus 34:14 For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before Me.
Psalms 83:18 May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
Exodus 3:13 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?”
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.”
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.
John 8:58 “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”