Isaiah 20

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

Asur ordusunun başkomutanı, Asur Kralı Sargon'un buyruğuyla gelerek Aşdot'a saldırıp kenti ele geçirdiği yıl RAB Amots oğlu Yeşaya aracılığıyla şöyle dedi: “Git, belindeki çulu çöz, ayağındaki çarığı çıkar.” Yeşaya denileni yaptı, çıplak ve yalınayak dolaşmaya başladı.

2 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].

3 [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.

RAB dedi ki, “Mısır'a ve Kûş'a belirti ve ibret olsun diye kulum Yeşaya nasıl üç yıl çıplak ve yalınayak dolaştıysa,

4 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.

Asur Kralı da Mısır'a utanç olsun diye Mısırlı tutsaklarla Kûşlu sürgünleri genç yaşlı demeden, çıplak ve yalınayak, mahrem yerleri açık yürütecek.

5 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.

Kûş'a bel bağlayan, Mısır'la övünen halk hüsrana uğrayacak, utanç içinde kalacak.

6 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!’”

Bu kıyı bölgesinde yaşayanlar o gün, “Asur Kralı'nın elinden kurtulmak için yardımına sığındığımız, bel bağladığımız ulusların başına gelene bakın!” diyecekler, “Biz nasıl kurtulacağız?”