Isaías 20

1 En el año en que el comandante llegó a Asdod, enviado por Sargón, rey de Asiria, hizo una guerra contra ella y la tomó;

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

2 En aquel momento vino la palabra del Señor a Isaías, hijo de Amoz, que decía: Ve, y quítate la túnica y los zapatos de tus pies. Y así lo hizo, andando sin ropa y sin zapatos en los pies.

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 Y el Señor dijo: Como mi siervo Isaías estuvo sin ropa y sin zapatos durante tres años como una señal y una maravilla para Egipto y Etiopía.

[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 Así se llevará el rey de Asiria a los prisioneros de Egipto y a los expulsados de Etiopía, jóvenes y viejos, sin ropa y sin zapatos, y con la espalda descubierta, para vergüenza de 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 Y estarán llenos de temor, y ya no tendrán fe en Etiopía, que era su esperanza, o en Egipto, que era su gloria.

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 Y los que viven junto al mar dirán en ese día: Mira el destino de nuestra esperanza, a quien acudimos en busca de ayuda y salvación del rey de Asiria: ¿qué esperanza tenemos entonces de la salvación?

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!’”