1 In the year that the 1Heb TartanA2 Kin 18:17commander came to B1 Sam 5:1Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it, 2 at that time the Loʀᴅ spoke through AIs 1:1; 13:1Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loosen the BZech 13:4; Matt 3:4sackcloth from your hips and take your CEzek 24:17, 23shoes off your feet.” And he did so, going D1 Sam 19:24; Mic 1:8naked and barefoot. 3 And the Loʀᴅ said, “Even as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a 1Or wonderAIs 8:18sign and token against Egypt and 2Or Ethiopia, so in vv 4, 5BIs 37:9; 43:3Cush, 4 so the AIs 19:4king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, BIs 47:2, 3young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the 1Lit nakednessshame of Egypt. 5  “Then they will be A2 Kin 18:21; Is 30:3-5; 31:1; Ezek 29:6, 7dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and Egypt their BJer 9:23, 24; 17:5; 1 Cor 3:21boast. 6  “So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled AIs 10:3; 30:7; 31:3; Jer 30:1, 7, 15-17; 31:1-3for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, BMatt 23:33; 1 Thess 5:3; Heb 2:3how shall we escape?’ ”