Isaiah 20
1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent
him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
2 at that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose
the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did
so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot
three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;
4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles
of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to
the shame of Egypt.
5 And they shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
6 And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is
our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of
Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?