1. It was in the year that Tartan entered Ashdod, when he was sent by King Sargon of the Assyrians to wage war against Ashdod and captured it.
2. Then the Lord spoke to Isaiah son of Amoz and said this: Now, remove the sackcloth from your loins, and untie the sandals from your feet. So thereafter, that’s what Isaiah did. He started walking around barefoot and naked.
3. And the Lord said: As My servant Isaiah walks barefoot and naked, the same signs and miracles will be sent throughout Ethiopia and Egypt in the coming three years.
4. For the king of Assyria will lead you as captives, Ethiopians and Egyptians, both young and old, naked and barefoot, to show Egypt’s shame.
5. The Ethiopians who rely on Egyptians will then be vanquished and shamed, for their only glory was Egypt.
6. And they’ll say to those in the islands, Look, although we thought we could turn to you to protect us, you couldn’t save us from Assyria’s king. And since even you couldn’t save us, how can we now be delivered?