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Then[a] 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[b] of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks,[c] the shame of Egypt.

And they shall be dismayed,
    and they shall be ashamed
because of Cush, their hope,
    and because of Egypt, their pride.

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Footnotes

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