Isaiah 20

1 Ye sap ku lal Tokosra Fulat Sargon lun Assyria, captain lun un mwet mweun lun Assyria el mweuni Ashdod, sie siti in facl Philistia.

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

2 Yac tolu meet liki ma inge, LEUM GOD El tuh fahk nu sel Isaiah wen natul Amoz elan sarukla fahluk lal ac nuknuk yohk eoa ma el nukum. El akos ac forfor koflufol ac tia fahluk.

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 Ke pacl se sruoh acn Ashdod, LEUM GOD El fahk, “Isaiah, mwet kulansap luk, el forfor koflufol ac tia fahluk ke yac tolu. Ma se inge sie mwe akul nu ke ma ac sikyak nu sin Egypt ac Ethiopia.

[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 Tokosra Fulat lun Assyria el fah usla mwet el sruokya sin mutunfacl luo inge koflufolla som. Mwet fusr ac mwet matu elos fah fahsr koflufol ac tia fahluk, ac wangin ma afinyen kahpulos — sie mwe akmwekinye facl Egypt.

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 Elos su filiya lulalfongi lalos ke Ethiopia ac konkin ke Egypt ac fah oela, ac wanginla finsrak lalos.

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 Ke pacl sac ac tuku, mwet ma muta wekof uh in acn Philistia fah fahk, ‘Liye ma sikyak nu sin mwet ma kut lulalfongi in loangekut liki Tokosra Fulat lun Assyria! Kut ac moulla fuka?’”

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!’”