Isaiah 45:15

Good News Translation

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

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.

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

¹¹ The Lord , the holy God of Israel, the one who shapes the future, says: "You have no right to question me about my children or to tell me what I ought to do! ¹² I am the one who made the earth and created human beings to live there. By my power I stretched out the heavens; I control the sun, the moon, and the stars. ¹³ I myself have stirred Cyrus to action to fulfill my purpose and put things right. I will straighten out every road that he travels. He will rebuild my city, Jerusalem, and set my captive people free. No one has hired him or bribed him to do this." The Lord Almighty has spoken. ¹⁴ The Lord says to Israel, "The wealth of Egypt and Ethiopia will be yours, and the tall men of Seba will be your slaves; they will follow you in chains. They will bow down to you and confess, ‘God is with you—he alone is God. ¹⁵ The God of Israel, who saves his people, is a God who conceals himself. ¹⁶ Those who make idols will all be ashamed; all of them will be disgraced. ¹⁷ But Israel is saved by the Lord , and her victory lasts forever; her people will never be disgraced.'" ¹⁸ The Lord created the heavens— he is the one who is God! He formed and made the earth— he made it firm and lasting. He did not make it a desolate waste, but a place for people to live. It is he who says, "I am the Lord , and there is no other god. ¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret or kept my purpose hidden. I did not require the people of Israel to look for me in a desolate waste. I am the Lord , and I speak the truth; I make known what is right."

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 he kissed her and began to cry for joy.

Genesis 29:13
and when he heard the news about his nephew Jacob, he ran to meet him, hugged him and kissed him, and brought him into the house. When Jacob told Laban everything that had happened,

Genesis 33:4
But Esau ran to meet him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. They were both crying.

Genesis 45:2
He cried with such loud sobs that the Egyptians heard it, and the news was taken to the king's palace.

Exodus 4:27
Meanwhile the Lord had said to Aaron, "Go into the desert to meet Moses." So he went to meet him at the holy mountain; and when he met him, he kissed him.

Ruth 1:9
And may the Lord make it possible for each of you to marry again and have a home." So Naomi kissed them good-bye. But they started crying

Ruth 1:14
Again they started crying. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye and went back home, but Ruth held on to her.

1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took a jar of olive oil and poured it on Saul's head, kissed him, and said, "The Lord anoints you as ruler of his people Israel. You will rule his people and protect them from all their enemies. And this is the proof to you that the Lord has chosen you to be the ruler of his people:

1 Samuel 20:41
After the boy had left, David got up from behind the pile of stones, fell on his knees and bowed with his face to the ground three times. Both he and Jonathan were crying as they kissed each other; David's grief was even greater than Jonathan's.

2 Samuel 14:33
So Joab went to King David and told him what Absalom had said. The king sent for Absalom, who went to him and bowed down to the ground in front of him. The king welcomed him with 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.