Ésaïe 20:2

2 en ce temps-là l'Eternel adressa la parole à Esaïe, fils d'Amots, et lui dit: Va, détache le sac de tes reins et ôte tes souliers de tes pieds. Il fit ainsi, marcha nu et déchaussé.

Ésaïe 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.

Ésaïe 20:2 In-Context

1 L'année où Tharthan, envoyé par Sargon, roi d'Assyrie, vint assiéger Asdod et s'en empara,

2 en ce temps-là l'Eternel adressa la parole à Esaïe, fils d'Amots, et lui dit: Va, détache le sac de tes reins et ôte tes souliers de tes pieds. Il fit ainsi, marcha nu et déchaussé.

3 Et l'Eternel dit: De même que mon serviteur Esaïe marche nu et déchaussé, ce qui sera dans trois ans un signe et un présage pour l'Egypte et pour l'Ethiopie,

4 de même le roi d'Assyrie emmènera de l'Egypte et de l'Ethiopie captifs et exilés les jeunes hommes et les vieillards, nus et déchaussés, et le dos découvert, à la honte de l'Egypte.

5 Alors on sera dans l'effroi et dans la confusion, à cause de l'Ethiopie en qui l'on avait mis sa confiance, et de l'Egypte dont on se glorifiait.