Ésaïe 20:2

2 En ce temps-là, l'Éternel parla par le ministère d'Ésaïe, fils d'Amots, et lui dit: Va, détache le sac de tes reins, et ôte tes souliers de tes pieds; ce qu'il fit, allant 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 vint à Asdod, envoyé par Sargon, roi d'Assyrie, assiégea Asdod et la prit;

2 En ce temps-là, l'Éternel parla par le ministère d'Ésaïe, fils d'Amots, et lui dit: Va, détache le sac de tes reins, et ôte tes souliers de tes pieds; ce qu'il fit, allant nu et déchaussé.

3 Alors l'Éternel dit: Comme Ésaïe, mon serviteur, a marché nu et déchaussé, ce qui est un signe et un présage contre l'Égypte et contre l'Éthiopie pour trois années;

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

5 Alors ils seront consternés et confus au sujet de l'Éthiopie, leur espérance, et de l'Égypte, leur gloire.