Isaías 20:2

2 el Señor
le dijo a Isaías, hijo de Amoz: «Quítate la ropa de tela áspera que has estado usando y también las sandalias». Isaías hizo lo que se le indicó, y anduvo 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 Mensaje acerca de Egipto y Etiopía
El año en que el rey Sargón de Asiria envió a su comandante en jefe para que conquistara la ciudad filistea de Asdod,

2 el Señor
le dijo a Isaías, hijo de Amoz: «Quítate la ropa de tela áspera que has estado usando y también las sandalias». Isaías hizo lo que se le indicó, y anduvo desnudo y descalzo.

3 Entonces el Señor
dijo: «Mi siervo Isaías ha andado desnudo y descalzo durante los últimos tres años como señal: un símbolo de las terribles dificultades que haré caer sobre Egipto y Etiopía.

4 Pues el rey de Asiria llevará prisioneros a los egipcios y a los etíopes.
Los hará andar desnudos y descalzos, tanto jóvenes como ancianos, con las nalgas descubiertas para vergüenza de Egipto.

5 Entonces los filisteos se llenarán de pánico, porque contaban con el poder de Etiopía y hacían alarde de los aliados que tenían en Egipto.