⁶ Put them on your shoulder as they are watching and carry them out at dusk. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have made you a sign^(A) to the Israelites.”

³ Then take an iron pan,^(A) place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward^(B) it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign^(C) to the people of Israel.^(D)

²⁴ Ezekiel^(A) will be a sign^(B) to you; you will do just as he has done. When this happens, you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.’

¹⁸ Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me.^(A) We are signs^(B) and symbols^(C) in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.^(D)

⁸ So Saul disguised^(A) himself, putting on other clothes, and at night he and two men went to the woman. “Consult^(B) a spirit for me,” he said, “and bring up for me the one I name.”

¹¹ Say to them, ‘I am a sign^(A) to you.’

“As I have done, so it will be done to them. They will go into exile as captives.^(B)

¹² “The prince among them will put his things on his shoulder at dusk^(C) and leave, and a hole will be dug in the wall for him to go through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.^(D)

² at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz.^(A) He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth^(B) from your body and the sandals^(C) from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped^(D) and barefoot.^(E)

³ Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant^(F) Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years,^(G) as a sign^(H) and portent^(I) against Egypt^(J) and Cush,^{[a](K) 4} so the king^(L) of Assyria will lead away stripped^(M) and barefoot the Egyptian captives^(N) and Cushite^(O) exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared^(P)—to Egypt’s shame.^(Q)

³⁰ But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping^(A) as he went; his head^(B) was covered and he was barefoot. All the people with him covered their heads too and were weeping as they went up.