إشَعْياء 20

١ 1 وَفِي السَّنَةِ الَّتِي أَوْفَدَ فِيهَا سَرْجُونُ مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ تَرْتَانَ رَئِيسَ جَيْشِهِ إِلَى أَشْدُودَ وَحَارَبَهَا وَقَهَرَهَا،

One year King Sargon of Assyria sent the chief commander of his army [to take his soldiers] to capture Ashdod [city in Philistia].

٢ 2 تَكَلَّمَ الرَّبُّ عَلَى لِسَانِ إِشَعْيَاءَ بْنِ آمُوصَ قَائِلاً: «اذْهَبْ وَاخْلَعِ الْمُسُوحَ عَنْ حَقْوَيْكَ، وَانْزِعْ حِذَاءَكَ مِنْ قَدَمَيْكَ». فَفَعَلَ كَذَلِكَ وَمَشَى عَارِياً حَافِياً.

At that time, Yahweh told me, “Take off the rough sackcloth that you have been wearing and take off your sandals.” [So] I did what he told me to do, and [then] I walked around naked and barefoot [for three years].

٣ 3 وَقَالَ الرَّبُّ: «كَمَا مَشَى عَبْدِي إِشَعْيَاءُ عَارِياً حَافِياً لِمُدَّةِ ثَلاثِ سَنَوَاتٍ عَلامَةً وَآيَةً عَلَى الْمَصَائِبِ الَّتِي سَأُنْزِلُهَا بِمِصْرَ وَكُوشَ،

[Then] Yahweh said this [to the people of Judah]: “My servant Isaiah has been walking around naked and barefoot for the past three years. That is to show the terrible disasters that [I will cause the people of] Egypt and Ethiopia to experience.

٤ 4 هَكَذَا يَقُودُ مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ أَسْرَى مِصْرَ وَكُوشَ صِغَاراً وَكِبَاراً، عُرَاةً حُفَاةً بِأَقْفِيَةٍ مَكْشُوفَةٍ، عَاراً لِمِصْرَ.

What will happen is that the [army of the] King of Assyria will [invade those countries and capture many of the people and] take them away as their prisoners. They will force all them, including both the young ones and the old ones, to walk naked and barefoot. They will [also] force them to have no clothes around their buttocks, which will cause [the people of] Egypt to be ashamed.

٥ 5 عِنْدَئِذٍ يَفْزَعُ الْفِلِسْطِينِيُّونَ الَّذِينَ اعْتَمَدُوا عَلَى كُوشَ رَجَائِهِمْ وَمِصْرَ فَخْرِهِمْ.

Then the people of other countries who trusted that the armies of Egypt and Ethiopia would be able to help them will be very dismayed/confused and afraid/disappointed.

٦ 6 وَيَقُولُونَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ:’انْظُرُوا إِلَى مَا آلَ إِلَيْهِ مَنْ كَانَ رَجَاؤُنَا، وَإِلَى مَنْ لُذْنَا بِهِ لِيُنْقِذَنَا مِنْ مَلِكِ أَشُّورَ، فَكَيْفَ نَنْجُو نَحْنُ؟‘»

They will say, ‘We trusted that the armies of Egypt and Ethiopia [would help us and defend us, but they have been destroyed], so there is no way [RHQ] that we can escape from [being destroyed by the army of] the King of Assyria!’”