Where Is YHWH in Isaiah 57,14-15? (1) Questions like the one in the above title may be asked of many texts in the BH since there is not one, sustained Israelite vision of where Divine Presence is perceived to be (2). Similarly, in Trito-Isaiah 57,14- 15, it is not clear where the author/redactor envisions YHWH’s dwelling. The text describes YHWH as high and lifted up, dwelling forever and having a holy name but also dwelling high and with the crushed and dejected for the purpose of reviving their spirits and hearts. Due to confusion in the Hebrew regarding the relationship between where YHWH dwells and YHWH’s relationship with the marginalized, the interpretive question arises: does this post-exilic author/redactor represent YHWH in the earthly temple expressing an immanent YHWH or in the heavenly temple expressing a transcendent YHWH? Many of the Versions’ Tendenz (3) — evident in their translational decisions — interpret Trito-Isaiah speaking of a transcendent rather than immanent YHWH. Curiously, the general scholarly consensus parallels the interpretation of the Versions. Yet as the Versions struggled with translation, modern scholarship also shows slight disagreement in where YHWH dwells. Thus, we have a text that is unclear about where YHWH dwells, deals with a theological concept of great importance for the Israelites and leads to confusion in ancient (1) I would like to thank Craig Broyles for commenting on an earlier draft of this paper with patience and encouragement as well as the efforts of the editorial team at Biblica. Any mistakes that remain are of course, my own. (2) The continual challenge for the Israelites’ theological expressions of where YHWH dwells has been studied by T. METTINGER, The Dethronement of Sabaoth. Studies in the Shem and Kabod Theologies (CBOT Series 18; Lund 1982). He outlines the three major theologies of YHWH’s dwelling in the HB and suggests that Shem and Kabod are adaptations or challenges to the YHWH Sabaoth theology in order to deal with the increasing threat of Exile. (3) Septuagint studies seems to be leading in the theological Tendenz discussions. Consider works such as R.L. TROXEL, “Exegesis and Theology in the LXX: Isaiah V 26-30”, VT 43 (1993) 102-111. S. PACE, “The Stratigraphy of the Text of Daniel and the Question of Theological Tendenz in the Old Greek”, BIOSCS 17 (1984) 15-35; J. OLLEY, “The Translator of the Septuagint of Isaiah and Righteousness”, BIOSCS 13 (1980) 58-74. D.A. BAER, When We All Go Home. Translation and Theology in LXX Isaiah 56–66 (Sheffield 2001).