³ Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,^{(A) 4} so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as captives and the Cushites as exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.^{(B) 5} And they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.^(C)

⁵ Cush and Put and Lud and all the mixed populations and Libya^[a] and the people of the allied land^[b] shall fall with them by the sword.^(A)

⁹ On that day, messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the secure Cushites, and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom,^[a] for it is coming!^(A)