^20:2At that time the Lord announced through² Isaiah son of Amoz: “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and take your sandals off your feet.” He did as instructed and walked around in undergarments³ and barefoot.

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Footnotes

2 Heb “spoke by the hand of.”
3 The word used here (עָרוֹם, ’arom) sometimes means “naked,” but here it appears to mean simply “lightly dressed,” i.e., stripped to one’s undergarments. See עָרוֹם. The term also occurs in vv. 3, 4.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

during that time the Lord had spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, take off your sackcloth and remove the sandals from your feet,” and he did that, going stripped and barefoot—

NLTNew Living Translation

the Lord told Isaiah son of Amoz, “Take off the burlap you have been wearing, and remove your sandals.” Isaiah did as he was told and walked around naked and barefoot.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

at that time, Yahweh had spoken by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying,

“Go and loosen the sackcloth from your loins,

and take off your sandals from your feet,”

and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot.

KJV 1900King James Version

At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying,

Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins,

And put off thy shoe from thy foot.

And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

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