Isaiah 20:5
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Kush their expectation, and of Mitzrayim their tiferet (glory, boast).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 18:21Now, hinei, thou trustest upon the mishenet (staff) of this bruised reed, even upon Mitzrayim, on which if a man lean, it will go into his yad, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh Melech Mitzrayim unto all that depend on him.
Isaiah 30:3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, 1 and the refuge in the tzel of Mitzrayim your humiliation. 1
Isaiah 30:7For the Mitzrayim shall be hevel (vain) in help, and to no purpose; 1 therefore have I called her concerning this, Rahab Sits Idle. 1
Jeremiah 9:23But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am Hashem Who exercises chesed, mishpat, and tzedakah, on ha'aretz; for in these things I delight, saith Hashem.
Jeremiah 46:25Hashem Tzva'os Elohei Yisroel, saith; Hineni, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Mitzrayim, with their elohim, and their melachim; even Pharaoh, and all the botechim (ones trusting) in him;
Ezekiel 29:7When they took hold of thee by thy palm, thou didst splinter, and tear all their katef (shoulder); and when they leaned upon thee, thou broke, and madest all their loins unsteady.
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 →