Isaiah 20

1 In the year that Tartan came into Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;

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

2 at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.' And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

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

3 And the LORD said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia,

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

4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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

5 And they shall be dismayed and ashamed, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

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

6 And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day: Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?'

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