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The Prophecy
of Isaias 20
In the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when
Sargon the king of the Assyrians had sent him, and he
had fought against Azotus, and had taken it:
At that same time the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaias
the son of Amos, saying: Go, and loose the sackcloth
from off thy loins, and take off thy shoes from thy
feet. And he did so, and went naked, and barefoot.
And the Lord said: As my servant Isaias hath walked,
naked and barefoot, it shall be a sign and a wonder
of three years upon Egypt, and upon Ethiopia,
So shall the king of the Assyrians lead away the prisoners
of Egypt, and the captivity of Ethiopia, young and old.
naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered to
the shame of Egypt.
And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their
hope, and of Egypt their glory.
And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day:
Lo this was our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver
up from the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how
shall we be able to escape? |