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Isaiah 20:2
New English Translation
Isaiah 20:2
New English Translation
2 At that time the Lord announced through[a] 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 undergarments[b] and barefoot.
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- Isaiah 20:2 tn Heb “spoke by the hand of.”
- Isaiah 20:2 tn The word used here (עָרוֹם, ʿarom) sometimes means “naked,” but here it appears to mean simply “lightly dressed,” i.e., stripped to one’s undergarments. See HALOT 883 s.v. עָרוֹם. The term also occurs in vv. 3, 4.
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