Isaías 20:2

2 En aquel tiempo habló el SEÑOR por Isaías hijo de Amoz, diciendo: Ve, y quita el saco de tus lomos, y descalza los zapatos de tus pies. Y lo hizo así, andando desnudo y descalzo

Isaías 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.

Isaías 20:2 In-Context

1 En el año que vino Tartán a Asdod, cuando le envió Sargón rey de Asiria, y peleó contra Asdod, y la tomó

2 En aquel tiempo habló el SEÑOR por Isaías hijo de Amoz, diciendo: Ve, y quita el saco de tus lomos, y descalza los zapatos de tus pies. Y lo hizo así, andando desnudo y descalzo

3 Y dijo el SEÑOR: De la manera que anduvo mi siervo Isaías desnudo y descalzo tres años, señal y pronóstico sobre Egipto, y sobre Etiopía

4 así llevará el rey de Asiria la cautividad de Egipto, y la transmigración de Etiopía, de niños, y de viejos, desnuda, y descalza, y descubiertas las nalgas para vergüenza de Egipto

5 Y se turbarán y avergonzarán de Etiopía su esperanza, y de Egipto su gloria