Isaiah 45:15

Bible in Basic English

Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!

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.

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

¹¹ The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands? ¹² I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places. ¹³ I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies. ¹⁴ The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God. ¹⁵ Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour! ¹⁶ All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low. ¹⁷ But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever. ¹⁸ For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other. ¹⁹ I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.

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
And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.

Genesis 29:13
And Laban, hearing news of Jacob, his sister's son, came running, and took Jacob in his arms, and kissing him, made him come into his house. And Jacob gave him news of everything.

Genesis 33:4
Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping.

Genesis 45:2
And so loud was his weeping, that it came to the ears of the Egyptians and all Pharaoh's house.

Exodus 4:27
And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the waste land and you will see Moses. So he went and came across Moses at the mountain of God, and gave him a kiss.

Ruth 1:9
May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.

Ruth 1:14
Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.

1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on his head and gave him a kiss and said, Is not the Lord with the holy oil making you ruler over Israel, his people? and you will have authority over the people of the Lord, and you will make them safe from the hands of their attackers round about them, and this will be the sign for you:

1 Samuel 20:41
And when the boy had gone, David came from his secret place by the hill, and falling to the earth went down on his face three times: and they gave one another a kiss, weeping together, till David's grief was the greater.

2 Samuel 14:33
So Joab went to the king and said these words to him: and when the king had sent for him, Absalom came, and went down on his face on the earth before the king: and the king gave him a kiss.

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.