1. In the year of Tartan's coming to Ashdod, in Sargon king of
Assyria's sending him, and he fought with Ashdod and took it; 2. at
that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, Go, and thou shalt loose the sackcloth from upon thy loins,
and thy shoe thou shalt pull off from thy foot. And he did so, going
naked and barefoot.
3. And Jehovah said, As my servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot
three years a sign and symbol concerning Egypt and concerning
Ethiopia, 4. so shall the king of Assyria lead the captivity of Egypt
and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, with
their buttocks uncovered, the disgrace of Egypt.
5. And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their boast. 6. And the inhabitant of this
coast shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither
we fled for help, to be delivered from the presence of the king of
Assyria! and how shall we (ourselves) escape?