20In the year that the supreme commander,^o sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod^p and attacked and captured it—²at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz.^q He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth^r from your body and the sandals^s from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped^t and barefoot.^u

³Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant^v Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years,^w as a sign^x and portent^y against Egypt^z and Cush,^a^a ⁴so the king^b of Assyria will lead away stripped^c and barefoot the Egyptian captives^d and Cushite^e exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared^f—to Egypt’s shame.^g ⁵Those who trusted^h in Cushⁱ and boasted in Egypt^j will be dismayed and put to shame.^k ⁶In that day^l the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened^m to those we relied on,ⁿ those we fled to for help^o and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?^p’ ”

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Footnotes

aThat is, the upper Nile region; also in verse 5

Cross references

o 2 Ki 18:17
pSee Jos 11:22; See 13:3
qSee Isa 13:1
r 2 Ki 1:8; See Isa 3:24; Zec 13:4; Mt 3:4
s Eze 24:17, 23
tSee 1 Sa 19:24
u Eze 4:1–12; Mic 1:8
v Isa 22:20; 41:8–9; 42:1; 43:10; 49:3, 5–7; 50:10; 52:13; 53:11; Jer 7:25; Hag 2:23; Zec 4:14
wSee Isa 16:14
xSee Ex 3:12; See Isa 8:18; 37:30; 38:7; Ac 21:11
ySee Dt 28:46
zSee Isa 19:1
aver 5; See Ge 10:6; Isa 37:9; 43:3
bSee Isa 19:4
cSee Job 12:17
d Jer 46:19; Na 3:10
e Isa 18:1; Zep 2:12
fSee Isa 3:24
g Isa 47:3; Jer 13:22, 26; Na 3:5
hSee Isa 8:12
iSee ver 3
jSee 2 Ki 18:21; See Isa 30:5
k Eze 29:16
l Isa 2:11; See 19:23
mSee 2 Ki 18:21
n Jer 46:25
oSee Isa 10:3
p Jer 30:15–17; 31:2; Mt 23:33; 1 Th 5:3; Heb 2:3