Isaiah 20:5-6
The Message
3-6 Then God said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has walked around town naked and barefooted for three years as a warning sign to Egypt and Ethiopia, so the king of Assyria is going to come and take the Egyptians as captives and the Ethiopians as exiles. He’ll take young and old alike and march them out of there naked and barefooted, exposed to mockery and jeers—the bared buttocks of Egypt on parade! Everyone who has put hope in Ethiopia and expected help from Egypt will be thrown into confusion. Everyone who lives along this coast will say, ‘Look at them! Naked and barefooted, shuffling off to exile! And we thought they were our best hope, that they’d rescue us from the king of Assyria. Now what’s going to happen to us? How are we going to get out of this?’”
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Isaiah 20:5-6
New International Version
5 Those who trusted(A) in Cush(B) and boasted in Egypt(C) will be dismayed and put to shame.(D) 6 In that day(E) the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened(F) to those we relied on,(G) those we fled to for help(H) and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?(I)’”
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