Isaie 20

¹In the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when Sargon the king of the Assyrians had sent him, and he had fought against Azotus, and had taken it:

²at that time our Lord spake in the hand of Isaie the son of Amos, saying: Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take off thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so going naked, and barefoot.

³And our Lord said: As my servant Isaie hath walked, naked and barefoot, it shall be a sign and a wonder of three years upon Ægypt, and upon Æthiopia,

⁴so shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Ægypt, and the transmigration of Æthiopia, young and old, naked and unshod, their buttocks uncovered to the ignominy of Ægypt.

⁵And they shall fear, & be ashamed of Æthiopia their hope, and of Ægypt their glory.

⁶And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day: Lo this was our hope, to whom we fled for help, that they should deliver us from the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape?