Isaiah 20

New King James Version

The Sign Against Egypt and Ethiopia

20 In the year that ^(A)Tartan^[a] came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it, ²at the same time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and remove ^(B)the sackcloth from your ^[b]body, and take your sandals off your feet.” And he did so, ^(C)walking naked and barefoot.

³Then the Lord said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years ^(D)for a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia, ⁴so shall the ^(E)king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, ^(F)with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. ⁵^(G)Then they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation and Egypt their glory. ⁶And the inhabitant of this territory will say in that day, ‘Surely such is our expectation, wherever we flee for ^(H)help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?’ ”

Footnotes

Isaiah 20:1 Or the Commander in Chief
Isaiah 20:2 Lit. loins

Isaiah 46:9-11

New King James Version

⁹^(A)Remember the former things of old,
For I am God, and ^(B)there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,
¹⁰^(C)Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, ^(D)‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’
¹¹Calling a bird of prey ^(E)from the east,
The man ^(F)who executes My counsel, from a far country.
Indeed ^(G)I have spoken it;
I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it;
I will also do it.