Isaiah 45:15

The NET Bible®

Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden, O God of Israel, deliverer!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yes, you are a God who hides,God of Israel, Savior.

Hebrew Names Version
Most assuredly you are a God who hid yourself, God of Yisra'el, the Savior.'

King James Version
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

English Standard Version
Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

New American Standard Bible
Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, God of Israel, Savior!

New Century Version
God and Savior of Israel, you are a God that people cannot see.

Amplified Bible
Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, Savior!

World English Bible
Most assuredly you are a God who hid yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.'

Geneva Bible (1587)
Verely thou, O God, hidest thy selfe, O God, the Sauiour of Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
Truly, You are a God who hides Himself,O God of Israel, Savior!

Berean Standard Bible
Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

Contemporary English Version
People of Israel, your God is a mystery, though he alone can save.

Complete Jewish Bible
Truly, you are a God who hides himself, God of Isra'el, Savior!

Darby Translation
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. …

Easy-to-Read Version
You are the God people cannot see. You are the God who saves Israel.

George Lamsa Translation
Truly thou art a shelter, O God, the God of Israel, and his Saviour.

Good News Translation
The God of Israel, who saves his people, is a God who conceals himself.

Lexham English Bible
Surely you are a God who keeps yourself hidden, God of Israel, the savior.

Literal Translation
Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O how profounde art thou o God, thou God & Sauioure of Israel?

American Standard Version
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

Bible in Basic English
Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Verily Thou art a God that hidest Thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

King James Version (1611)
Uerely thou art a God that hidest thy selfe, O God of Israel the Sauiour.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
O howe profounde art thou O God, thou God and sauiour of Israel?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thou art God, yet we knew it not, the God of Israel, the Saviour.

English Revised Version
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Verili thou art God hid, God, the sauyour of Israel.

Update Bible Version
Truly you are a God that hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

Webster's Bible Translation
Verily thou [art] a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

New King James Version
Truly You are God, who hide Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior!

New Living Translation
Truly, O God of Israel, our Savior, you work in mysterious ways.

New Life Bible
It is true that You are a God Who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the One Who saves!

New Revised Standard
Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Surely, thou, art a GOD utterly hiding thyself, - O God of Israel, able to save!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour.

Revised Standard Version
Truly, thou art a God who hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

Young's Literal Translation
Surely Thou [art] a God hiding Thyself, God of Israel -- Saviour!

THE MESSAGE
Clearly, you are a God who works behind the scenes, God of Israel, Savior God. Humiliated, all those others will be ashamed to show their faces in public. Out of work and at loose ends, the makers of no-god idols won't know what to do with themselves. The people of Israel, though, are saved by you, God , saved with an eternal salvation. They won't be ashamed, they won't be at loose ends, ever.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, Savior!

Contextual Overview

¹¹ This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come: "How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands! ¹² I made the earth, I created the people who live on it. It was me—my hands stretched out the sky, I give orders to all the heavenly lights. ¹³ It is me—I stir him up and commission him; I will make all his ways level. He will rebuild my city; he will send my exiled people home, but not for a price or a bribe," says the Lord who commands armies. ¹⁴ This is what the Lord says: "The profit of Egypt and the revenue of Ethiopia, along with the Sabeans, those tall men, will be brought to you and become yours. They will walk behind you, coming along in chains. They will bow down to you and pray to you: ‘Truly God is with you; he has no peer; there is no other God!'" ¹⁵ Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden, O God of Israel, deliverer! ¹⁶ They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated. ¹⁷ Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord ; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated. ¹⁸ For this is what the Lord says, the one who created the sky— he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited— "I am the Lord , I have no peer. ¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. I did not tell Jacob's descendants, ‘Seek me in vain!' I am the Lord , the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a God: Isaiah 8:17, Isaiah 57:17, Psalms 44:24, Psalms 77:19, John 13:7, Romans 11:33, Romans 11:34

O God: Isaiah 45:17, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 43:3, Isaiah 43:11, Isaiah 46:13, Isaiah 60:16, Psalms 68:26, Matthew 1:22, Matthew 1:23, John 4:22, John 4:42, Acts 5:31, Acts 13:23, 2 Peter 3:18

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:12 - the thick Job 10:13 - hid Job 23:8 - General Psalms 89:46 - wilt Isaiah 54:8 - I hid Jeremiah 3:23 - in the Lord Jeremiah 14:8 - saviour John 5:23 - all men 1 Timothy 1:1 - God 2 Timothy 1:10 - our Titus 1:3 - God 1 John 5:20 - This is Revelation 7:10 - Salvation

Cross-References

Genesis 29:11
Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.

Genesis 29:13
When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister's son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban how he was related to him.

Genesis 33:4
But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

Genesis 45:2
He wept loudly; the Egyptians heard it and Pharaoh's household heard about it.

Exodus 4:27
The Lord said to Aaron, "Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.

Ruth 1:9
May the Lord enable each of you to find security in the home of a new husband!" Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept loudly.

Ruth 1:14
Again they wept loudly. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung tightly to her.

1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took a small container of olive oil and poured it on Saul's head. Samuel kissed him and said, "The Lord has chosen you to lead his people Israel! You will rule over the Lord 's people and you will deliver them from the power of the enemies who surround them. This will be your sign that the Lord has chosen you as leader over his inheritance.

1 Samuel 20:41
When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, knelt with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.

2 Samuel 14:33
So Joab went to the king and informed him. The king summoned Absalom, and he came to the king. Absalom bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and the king kissed him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Verily thou art a God that hideth thyself,.... Who hid himself from the Gentile world for some hundreds of years, who had no knowledge of the true God, lived without him in the world, and whose times of ignorance God overlooked, and suffered them to walk in their own ways; though now he would make himself known by his Gospel sent among them, and blessed for the conversion of them. He is also a God that hides himself from his own people at times, withdraws his gracious presence, and withholds the communication of his love and grace. These seem to be the words of the prophet, speaking his own experience, and that of other saints: or rather of the church, upon the access of the Gentiles to her, declaring what the Lord had been to them in former times; but now had showed himself to them in a way of grace and mercy. Some render it "thou art the hidden God" z; invisible in his nature; incomprehensible in his essence; not to be found out to perfection, nor to be traced in his providential dispensations; his judgments are unsearchable, and his ways past finding out. It may be applied to Christ in his state of humiliation; for though he was God manifest in the flesh, yet the glory of his deity was seen but by a few, being hid in the coarse veil of humanity; he appearing in the form of a servant, who was in the form of God, and equal to him; and to him the following words agree:

O God of Israel, the Saviour; for he is God over all, and the God of his spiritual Israel in an especial manner; and the Saviour of them from sin, wrath, condemnation, and death, by his obedience, sufferings, and death; or if it is to be understood of God the Father, who is the God of Israel, he is the Saviour of them by his Son.

z אתה אל מסתתר "tu es Deus absconditus", V. L. Tigurine version; "tu es abditus Deus Israelis", Syr.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself - That is, that hidest thy counsels and plans. The idea is, that the ways of God seems to be dark until the distant event discloses his purpose; that a long series of mysterious events seem to succeed each other, trying to the faith of his people, and where the reason of his doings cannot be seen. The remark here seems to be made by the prophet, in view of the fact, that the dealings of God with his people in their long and painful exile would be to them inscrutable, but that a future glorious manifestation would disclose the nature of his designs, and make his purposes known (see Isaiah 55:8-9): ‘My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways’ (compare Psalms 44:24; the notes at Isaiah 8:17).

The Saviour - Still the Saviour of his people, though his ways are mysterious and the reasons of his dealings are unknown. The Septuagint renders this, ‘For thou art God, though we did not know it, O God of Israel the Saviour.’ This verse teaches us that we should not repine or complain under the mysterious allotments of Providence. They may be dark now. But in due time they will be disclosed, and we shall be permitted to see his design, and to witness results so glorious, as shall satisfy us that his ways are all just, and his dealings right.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 45:15. Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself — At present, from the nations of the world.

O God of Israel, the Saviour — While thou revealest thyself to the Israelites and savest them.