Jesaja 20:2

2 Ter zelfder tijd sprak de HEERE, door den dienst van Jesaja, den zoon van Amoz, zeggende: Ga heen, en ontbind den zak van uw lendenen, en doe uw schoenen van uw voeten. En hij deed alzo, gaande naakt en barrevoets.

Jesaja 20:2 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 20:2

At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
&c.] Or, "by the hand of Isaiah", by his means; and it was to him likewise, as the following words show; and so the Septuagint version renders it; he spoke by him, by the sign he used, according to his order, and he spoke to him to use the sign:

saying;
so the Arabic version, "with him"; and with these versions Noldius agrees:

go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins;
a token of mourning, and which the prophet wore, as Kimchi thinks, because of the captivity of the ten tribes; and it may be also on account of the miseries that were coming upon the people of the Jews; though some think this was his common garb, and the same with the royal garment the prophets used to wear, ( Zechariah 13:4 ) but that he had put off, and had put on sackcloth in its room, which he is now bid to take off:

and put off thy shoe from thy foot;
as a sign of distress and mourning also, ( 2 Samuel 15:30 ) :

and he did so, walking naked and barefoot;
Kimchi thinks this was only visionally, or in the vision of prophecy, as he calls it, and not in reality; but the latter seems most probable, and best to agree with what follows; for he was obedient to the divine command, not regarding the disgrace which might attend it, nor the danger of catching cold, to which he was exposed; and hence he has the character of a servant of the Lord, in the next words, and a faithful obedient one he was.

Jesaja 20:2 In-Context

1 In het jaar, toen Tartan naar Asdod kwam, als hem Sargon, de koning van Assyrie gezonden had, toen hij krijg voerde tegen Asdod, en het innam;

2 Ter zelfder tijd sprak de HEERE, door den dienst van Jesaja, den zoon van Amoz, zeggende: Ga heen, en ontbind den zak van uw lendenen, en doe uw schoenen van uw voeten. En hij deed alzo, gaande naakt en barrevoets.

3 Toen zeide de HEERE: Gelijk als Mijn knecht Jesaja naakt en barrevoets wandelt, drie jaren, tot een teken en wonder over Egypte en over Morenland;

4 Alzo zal de koning van Assyrie voortdrijven de gevangenen der Egyptenaren, en de Moren, die weggevoerd zullen worden, jongen en ouden, naakt en barrevoets, en met blote billen, den Egyptenaren tot schaamte.

5 En zij zullen verschrikken en beschaamd zijn van de Moren, op dewelke zij zagen, en van de Egyptenaars, hun roem.