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at that time, Yahweh had spoken by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying,

“Go and loosen the sackcloth from your loins,
    and take off your sandals[a] from your feet,”

and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot.

Then[b] Yahweh said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush, so shall the king of Assyria lead the captives[c] of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks,[d] the shame of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 20:2 Hebrew “sandal”
  2. Isaiah 20:3 Or “And”
  3. Isaiah 20:4 Hebrew “captive”
  4. Isaiah 20:4 Literally “and bare of buttocks”