Jesajan 20

1 Sinä vuonna, jona Tartan, Sargonin, Assurin kuninkaan, lähettämänä, tuli Asdodiin, ryhtyi taisteluun Asdodia vastaan ja valloitti sen-

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

2 siihen aikaan Herra puhui Jesajan, Aamoksen pojan, kautta sanoen: "Mene, riisu säkkipuku lanteiltasi ja vedä kengät jalastasi". Hän teki niin: kulki vaipatta ja avojaloin.

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 Sitten Herra sanoi: "Niinkuin palvelijani Jesaja on kolme vuotta kulkenut vaipatta ja avojaloin, merkiksi ja enteeksi Egyptille ja Etiopialle,

[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.

4 niin on Assurin kuningas kuljettava Egyptin sotavankeja ja Etiopian pakkosiirtolaisia, sekä nuoria että vanhoja, vaipattomina ja avojaloin, takapuolet paljaina-Egyptin häpeä!

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.

5 Silloin he kauhistuvat ja saavat häpeän Etiopiasta, joka oli heidän toivonsa, ja Egyptistä, joka oli heidän ylpeytensä.

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.

6 Ja tämän rantamaan asukkaat sanovat sinä päivänä: 'Katso, näin on käynyt meidän toivomme, jonka turviin me pakenimme apua saamaan, vapautuaksemme Assurin kuninkaasta. Kuinka me sitten itse pelastuisimme?'"

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!’”