Isaías 20

1 No ano em que veio Tartan a Asdod, enviando-o Sargon, rei da Assyria, e guerreou contra Asdod, e a tomou;

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

2 No mesmo tempo falou o Senhor pelo ministério de Isaias, filho d'Amós, dizendo: vai, solta o saco de teus lombos, e descalça os teus sapatos dos teus pés. E assim o fez, indo nu e descalço.

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 Então disse o Senhor: Assim como anda o meu servo Isaias, nu e descalço, por sinal e prodígio de três anos sobre o Egito e sobre a 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 Assim o rei da Assyria levará em cativeiro os presos do Egito, e os cativados da Ethiopia, assim moços como velhos, nus e descalços, e descobertas as nádegas para vergonha dos egípcios.

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 E assombrar-se-ão, e envergonhar-se-ão, por causa dos ethiopes, para quem atentavam, como também dos egípcios, sua glória.

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 Então dirão os moradores desta ilha naquele dia: olhai que tal foi aquele, para quem atentavamos, a quem nos acolhemos por socorro, para nos livrarmos da face do rei da Assyria! como pois escaparemos nós?

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!’”