Sign of Nakedness

20 In the year that the Tartan^[a] came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it, ² at that time Adonai spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your loins and your sandals from your feet.” So he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

³ Then Adonai said: “Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years, as a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia, ⁴ so will the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to Egypt’s shame. ⁵ So they will be dismayed and ashamed, because they hoped in Ethiopia and boasted in Egypt. ⁶ Then the inhabitants of the coastland will say in that day, ‘Look, such is our hope—there we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape?’”