Isaiah 20:6

And the inhabitants of this coast shall say in that day, Hinei, such is our expectation, where we fled for ezrah (help) to be delivered from Melech Ashur; and how shall we escape?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

In Context

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

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Cross References

Job 22:30He shall deliver even the guilty; 1 and he is delivered by the bar (cleanness) of thine hands.

Isaiah 28:17Mishpat also will I make as the measuring line, 1 and tzedakah to be the plumbline; 1 and the barad shall sweep away the refuge of kazav, 1 and the mayim shall overflow the hiding place. 1

Isaiah 30:15For thus saith 1 Adonoi Hashem Kadosh Yisroel; 1 In shuvah (returning) and rest shall ye be saved; 1 in quietness and in confidence shall be your gevurah (strength); 1 but ye would not. 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 47:4Because of the Yom HaBah 1 for destroying all the Pelishtim (Philistines), 1 and to cut off from Tzor and Tzidon 1 every helper that remaineth; 1 for Hashem will destroy the Pelishtim (Philistines), 1 the remnant of the coast of Caphtor. 1

1 Thessalonians 5:3Whenever they say, “Shalom and Bitachon!” then sudden churban (destruction) will come upon them like the chevlei leydah (birth pangs) of the isha with a baby in her womb. And they can certainly not escape.

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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