SATURDAY Reflections
The
warnings that Isaiah gave about Egypt and Cush were about to culminate. Judah
had trusted that the presence of Egypt and Cush would serve as a deterrent from
invasion by the Assyrians, Now God is asking, “How are you going to escape?”
(they’re not)
In
one of the strangest requests, God asks Isaiah to go around stripped and
barefoot. It is unclear whether he would have had on a loincloth, but even if
he did it would have caught people’s attention, which is what God wanted.
Isa 20:1-6
(1) In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
(2) At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
(3) And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
(4) So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
(5) And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
(6) And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
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