In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon
the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and
captured it—at 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 naked and
barefoot.
Then the LORD said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and
barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and
Cush, so shall the king 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. Then
they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and
of Egypt their boast. And the inhabitants of this coastland will
say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in
whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the
king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’”
