Isaiah 45:15

Amplified Bible

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

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.

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

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

¹¹For the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker says this, "Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons, And give Me orders concerning the work of My hands. ¹²"I made the earth and created man upon it. My hands, stretched out the heavens, And I commanded all their host. ¹³"I have stirred up Cyrus and put him into action in righteousness [to accomplish My purpose] And I will make all his ways smooth; He will build My city and let My exiles go, Without any payment or reward," says the LORD of hosts. ¹⁴For this is what the LORD says, "The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush (ancient Ethiopia) And the Sabeans, men of stature, Will come over to you and they will be yours; They will walk behind you, in chains [of subjection to you] they will come over, And they will bow down before you; They will make supplication to you, [humbly and earnestly] saying, 'Most certainly God is with you, and there is no other, No other God [besides Him].'" ¹⁵Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, Savior!¹⁶They will be put to shame and also humiliated, all of them; They who make idols will go away together in humiliation. ¹⁷Israel has been saved by the LORD With an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or humiliated for all eternity. ¹⁸For the LORD, who created the heavens (He is God, who formed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it to be a wasteland, but formed it to be inhabited) says this, "I am the LORD, and there is no one else. ¹⁹"I have not spoken in secret, In a corner of a land of darkness; I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, 'Seek Me in vain [with no benefit for yourselves].' I, the LORD, speak righteousness [the truth—trustworthy, a straightforward correlation between deeds and words], Declaring things that are upright.

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 [in greeting], and he raised his voice and wept.

Genesis 29:13
When Laban heard of the arrival of Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and embraced and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he told Laban all these things.

Genesis 33:4
But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and hugged his neck and kissed him, and they wept [for joy].

Genesis 45:2
Joseph wept aloud, and the Egyptians [who had just left him] heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard of it.

Exodus 4:27
The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he went and met him at the mountain of God (Sinai) and kissed him.

Ruth 1:9
"May the LORD grant that you find rest, each one in the home of her husband." Then she kissed them [goodbye], and they wept aloud.

Ruth 1:14
Then they wept aloud again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law [goodbye], but Ruth clung to her.

1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took the flask of oil and poured it on Saul's head, kissed him, and said, "Has the LORD not anointed you as ruler over His inheritance (Israel)?

1 Samuel 20:41
As soon as the boy was gone, David got up from the south side [beside the mound of stones] and fell on his face to the ground [in submission and respect], and bowed three times. Then they kissed one another and wept together, but David wept more.

2 Samuel 14:33
So Joab came to the king and told him. Then David called for Absalom, and he came to the king and bowed his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

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.