Isaiah 20:4

So shall Melech Ashur (Assyria) lead away captive Mitzrayim and Golus-exiled Kush, ne'arim and zekenim, aron (naked) and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Mitzrayim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

In Context

3And Hashem said, Just as Avdi Yeshayah hath walked arom (naked) and barefoot shalosh shanim for an ot and mofet against Mitzrayim and Kush;

5And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Kush their expectation, and of Mitzrayim their tiferet (glory, boast).

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 19:4Therefore Chanun arrested Dovidʼs avadim, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks, and sent them away.

Isaiah 19:4And the Mitzrayim will I give over 1 into the yad adonim kasheh (power of hard taskmasters); 1 and a fierce melech shall rule over them, 1 saith HaAdon Hashem Tzva'os. 1

Isaiah 31:3Now the Mitzrayim are adam, 1 and not El (G-d); and their susim basar, 1 and not ruach. When Hashem shall stretch out His yad, 1 both he that helpeth shall fall, 1 and he that is helped shall stumble, 1 and they all shall come to an end together. 1

Jeremiah 13:22And if thou say in thine lev: 1 Why come these things upon me? 1 For the greatness of thine avon (iniquity) 1 are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels violated. 1

Jeremiah 46:19O thou Bat dwelling in Mitzrayim, 1 prepare thyself to go into Golus; 1 for Noph shall be waste 1 and desolate without an inhabitant. 1

Ezekiel 30:18At Tachpanches also the day shall be darkened, 1 when I shall break there the yokes of Mitzrayim; 1 and the ga'on (pride) of her strength shall cease in her; 1 as for her, an anan (a cloud) shall cover her, 1 and her banot shall go into captivity. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 20:2-6

Threatenings against Egypt. ( b. c. 713.) 1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; 2 At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. 3 And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall… Read the whole commentary →

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