Isaiah 48:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

For my own sake, even for my own sake, I will do it: for how should my name be polluted? And I will not give my glory to 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

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For My own sake—yes, for My own sake—I will act. For how can My name be defiled? I will not give My glory to another.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another.

• 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.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And that only for myne owne sake, for I geue myne Honoure to none other, that thou shuldest not despise me.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For mine owne sake, for mine owne sake wil I doe it: for how should my Name be polluted? surely I wil not giue my glory vnto another.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And that only for myne owne sake, yea euen for myne owne sake wyll I do this: or els what dishonour woulde they do to my name? surely I wyll not geue my glorie vnto another.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For My sake, for Mine own sake, I do `it', For how is it polluted? And Mine honour to another I give not.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should `my name' be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For my sake alone I will act, for how can I allow my name to be defiled? I will not share my glory with anyone else!

Referenced Verses

• Isa 42:8 : 8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, nor my praise to carved images.
• Ezek 20:9 : 9 But I acted 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 to them, in bringing them 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 misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has 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 has pleased the LORD to make you his people.
• Isa 37:35 : 35 For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
• Num 14:15-16 : 15 Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
• Ezek 20:14 : 14 But I acted 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 my hand, and acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
• Ezek 20:39 : 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD; Go, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me: but pollute my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
• Ezek 20:44 : 44 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have worked with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.
• Rom 2:24 : 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.
• Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
• Isa 48:5 : 5 I have declared it to you from the beginning; before it came to pass I showed it to you, lest you should say, 'My idol has done them, and my carved image and my molded image have commanded them.'
• Isa 52:5 : 5 Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them make them to wail, says the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
• Jer 14:7 : 7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.