< Isaias 20 >

1 Iti tawen nga immay ni Tartan idiay Asdod, idi imbaon isuna ni Sargon nga ari ti Asiria, nakiranget isuna iti Asdod ket sinakupna daytoy.
One year King Sargon of Assyria sent the chief commander of his army [to take his soldiers] to capture Ashdod [city in Philistia].
2 Iti dayta a tiempo, nagsao ni Yahweh babaen kenni Isaias a putot ni Amos a kinunana, “Mapanka ket ikkatem ti nakersang a lupot iti siketmo ken ikkatem dagita sandaliasmo.” Kasta ngarud ti inaramidna, nagnagna a lamolamo ken sakasaka.
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 Kinuna ni Yahweh, “Kas iti adipenko a ni Isaias a nagna a lamolamo ken sakasaka iti las-ud ti tallo a tawen, pagilasinan ken ballaag daytoy maipapan iti Egipto ken maipapan ti Etiopia-
[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 iti kastoy a wagas nga ipanawto ti ari ti Asiria dagiti natiliw a kas balud a taga-Egipto ken dagiti naipanaw a kas balud a taga-Etiopia, ubing ken nataengan, lamolamo ken sakasaka ken saan a naabbongan dagiti patongda, a pakaibabainan ti Egipto.
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 Maupay ken maibabaindanto, gapu ta ti Etiopia ti namnamada ken ti Egipto ti dayagda.
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 Dagiti agnanaed kadagitoy nga igid ti baybay ket ibagadanto iti dayta nga aldaw, 'Pudno, daytoy ti nagtaudan ti namnamatayo, a nagkamangantayo tapno maispaltayo manipud iti Ari ti Asiria, ket ita, kasanotayo ngay a makalibas?’”
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!’”

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