Isaiah 48:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְמַעֲנִ֧י לְמַעֲנִ֛י אֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה כִּ֣י אֵ֣יךְ יֵחָ֑ל וּכְבוֹדִ֖י לְאַחֵ֥ר לֹֽא־אֶתֵּֽן׃

Transliteration

For lemaʿănî lemaʿănî ʾeʿĕśeh for how yēḥāl and kebôdî to ʾaḥēr not ʾettēn

Grammar Details

• *lemaʿănî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - for my sake
• *ʾeʿĕśeh*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will do/act
• *yēḥāl*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it is profaned/defiled
• *kebôdî*: masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my glory/honor
• *ʾaḥēr*: adjective masculine singular - another
• *ʾettēn*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will give

Word Meanings

• *lemaʿănî*: for my sake/for my own purpose/on my account
• *ʾeʿĕśeh*: I will do/I will act/I will work
• *yēḥāl*: is profaned/is defiled/is polluted
• *kebôdî*: my glory/my honor/my dignity
• *ʾaḥēr*: another/other/someone else
• *ʾettēn*: I will give/I will grant/I will allow

Referenced Verses

• Isa 42:8 : 8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
• Ezek 20:9 : 9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
• Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
• 1 Sam 12:22 : 22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
• Isa 37:35 : 35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
• Num 14:15-16 : 15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
• Ezek 20:14 : 14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
• Ezek 20:22 : 22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
• Ezek 20:39 : 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
• Ezek 20:44 : 44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
• John 5:23 : 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
• Rom 2:24 : 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
• Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
• Isa 48:5 : 5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
• Isa 52:5 : 5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
• Jer 14:7 : 7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.