1 In the year that Tartan came into Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
2 at that time HaShem spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.' And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 And HaShem said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia,
4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
5 And they shall be dismayed and ashamed, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
6 And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day: Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?'
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And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
Verse Of The DayIsaiah's three years of walking stripped and barefoot foreshadow how Assyria will lead Egypt and Ethiopia away captive in the same shameful state, a campaign whose commander Tartan appears again in 2 Kings 18:17; the watchman's vigil over Babylon opens in Isaiah 21.
