Isaiah 20

A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush

1 In the year that the supreme commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it—
2 at that time the LORD spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.
3 Then the LORD said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush,[a]
4 so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared—to Egypt’s shame.
5 Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be dismayed and put to shame.
6 In that day the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’ ”

Cross References 28

  • 1. 2 Kings 18:17
  • 2. S Joshua 11:22; S Joshua 13:3
  • 3. S Isaiah 13:1
  • 4. 2 Kings 1:8; S Isaiah 3:24; Zechariah 13:4; Matthew 3:4
  • 5. Ezekiel 24:17,23
  • 6. S 1 Samuel 19:24
  • 7. Ezekiel 4:1-12; Micah 1:8
  • 8. Isaiah 22:20; Isaiah 41:8-9; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 49:3,5-7; Isaiah 50:10; Isaiah 52:13; Isaiah 53:11; Jeremiah 7:25; Haggai 2:23; Zechariah 4:14
  • 9. S Isaiah 16:14
  • 10. S Exodus 3:12; S Isaiah 8:18; Isaiah 37:30; Isaiah 38:7; Acts 21:11
  • 11. S Deuteronomy 28:46
  • 12. S Isaiah 19:1
  • 13. ver 5; S Genesis 10:6; Isaiah 37:9; Isaiah 43:3
  • 14. S Isaiah 19:4
  • 15. S Job 12:17
  • 16. Jeremiah 46:19; Nahum 3:10
  • 17. Isaiah 18:1; Zephaniah 2:12
  • 18. S Isaiah 3:24
  • 19. Isaiah 47:3; Jeremiah 13:22,26; Nahum 3:5
  • 20. S Isaiah 8:12
  • 21. S ver 3
  • 22. S 2 Kings 18:21; S Isaiah 30:5
  • 23. Ezekiel 29:16
  • 24. Isaiah 2:11; S Isaiah 19:23
  • 25. S 2 Kings 18:21
  • 26. Jeremiah 46:25
  • 27. S Isaiah 10:3
  • 28. Jeremiah 30:15-17; Jeremiah 31:2; Matthew 23:33; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Hebrews 2:3

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. That is, the upper Nile region; also in verse 5

Isaiah 20 Commentaries

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