Isaiah 20
A Sign Against Egypt and Cush
1In the year that athe commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to bAshdod and fought against it and captured it— 2at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking cnaked and barefoot.3Then the Lord said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years das a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush, ▼
▼Probably Nubia
4so shall the fking of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt. 5 gThen they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast. 6And the inhabitants of hthis coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and ito whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’” Isaiah 47:1
The Humiliation of Babylon
1 jCome down and sit in the dust,O virgin kdaughter of Babylon;
lsit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of mthe Chaldeans!
nFor you shall no more be called
tender and delicate.
Ezekiel 35:9
9 oI will make you a perpetual desolation, and pyour cities shall not be inhabited. Then qyou will know that I am the Lord.
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