8I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. …
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-12)Here is I. The covenant God made with and the commission he gave to the Messiah, Isa. 42:5-7, which are an exposition of Isa. 42:1; Behold my servant, whom I uphold . 1. The royal titles by which the great God here makes himself known, and distinguishes himself from all pretenders, speak very much his glory (Isa. 42:5): Thus saith God the Lord . And who are thou, Lord? Why, he is the fountain of a…
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