Old Testament · Prophets
Isaiah chapter 20
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In the year that the Assyrian came to — sent by , king of Assyria — and attacked it and captured it,at that time Yahweh spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go and remove the from your body and take off your sandals.” So he did it — walking around and barefoot.Then Yahweh said, “Just as my Isaiah has walked around stripped and barefoot for three years as a and an against Egypt and ,that’s how the king of Assyria will Egyptian prisoners and Cushite captives — young and old — stripped and barefoot, with their , to Egypt’s utter .Then they will be and ashamed because of Cush, their , and because of Egypt, their .And the people living along will say on that day, “Look at what happened to the ones we , the ones we relied on to us from the king of Assyria! If they couldn’t survive, what chance do we have?”