Isaiah 20 YLT
Summary: In the year Assyria's commander captured Ashdod, the LORD commands Isaiah to walk stripped and barefoot for three years as a living sign and wonder against Egypt and Cush (Ethiopia). This enacted prophecy signifies that the king of Assyria will lead away the Egyptians and Cushites captive and barefoot in the same shameful state, young and old alike, to Egypt's disgrace. The inhabitants of the coastland are pictured as dismayed, having lost their hoped-for allies against Assyria, left asking how they themselves will escape. The short chapter functions as a real-time enacted warning against Judah trusting in Egypt or Cush for deliverance.
1In the year of the coming in of Tartan to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Asshur sendeth him, and he fighteth against Ashdod, and captureth it,
2at that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, `Go, and thou hast loosed the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thy sandal thou dost draw from off thy foot,' and he doth so, going naked and barefoot.
3And Jehovah saith, `As My servant Isaiah hath gone naked and barefoot three years, a sign and a wonder for Egypt and for Cush,
4so doth the king of Asshur lead the captivity of Egypt, and the removal of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with seat uncovered--the nakedness of Egypt;
5and they have been affrighted and ashamed of Cush their confidence, and of Egypt their beauty,
6and the inhabitant of this isle hath said in that day--Lo, thus is our trust, Whither we have fled for help, To be delivered from the king of Asshur, And how do we escape--we?'
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