Isaiah 45:15

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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!

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Thus saith the Lord , the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. ¹² I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. ¹³ I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts. ¹⁴ Thus saith the Lord , The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God. ¹⁵ Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. ¹⁶ They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. ¹⁷ But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. ¹⁸ For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord ; and there is none else. ¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are 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
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

Genesis 29:13
And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

Genesis 33:4
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

Genesis 45:2
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

Exodus 4:27
And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

Ruth 1:9
The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

Ruth 1:14
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.

1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?

1 Samuel 20:41
And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

2 Samuel 14:33
So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on 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.