²at that time the Lord spoke through ^aIsaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loosen the ^bsackcloth from your hips and take your ^cshoes off your feet.” And he did so, going ^dnaked and barefoot.

³And the Lord said, “Even as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a ¹^asign and token against Egypt and ²^bCush,

⁴so the ^aking of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, ^byoung and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the ¹shame of Egypt.

⁵“Then they will be ^adismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and Egypt their ^bboast.

⁶“So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled ^afor help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, ^bhow shall we escape?’ ”

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Footnotes

1Heb Tartan
1Or wonder
2Or Ethiopia, so in vv 4, 5
1Lit nakedness

Cross references

a 2 Kin 18:17
b 1 Sam 5:1
a Is 1:1; 13:1
b Zech 13:4; Matt 3:4
c Ezek 24:17, 23
d 1 Sam 19:24; Mic 1:8
a Is 8:18
b Is 37:9; 43:3
a Is 19:4
b Is 47:2, 3
a 2 Kin 18:21; Is 30:3–5; 31:1; Ezek 29:6, 7
b Jer 9:23, 24; 17:5; 1 Cor 3:21
a Is 10:3; 30:7; 31:3; Jer 30:1, 7, 15–17; 31:1–3
b Matt 23:33; 1 Thess 5:3; Heb 2:3