1. During the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he waged war with Ashdod and captured it.
2. At that time, the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying: "Go, and you shall gird a sackcloth over your loins and you shall remove your shoes from your feet." And he did so, going naked and barefoot.
3. And the Lord said, "As My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years, as a sign and a symbol for Egypt and for Cush,
4. So shall the king of Assyria lead the captivity of Egypt and the exile of Cush, youths and old men, naked and barefoot, with bare buttocks, the shame of Egypt.
5. And they shall be broken and ashamed because of Cush, their expectation, and because of Egypt, their boasting.
6. And the inhabitants of this isle shall say on that day, "Behold, so is our expectation where we fled for aid because of the king of Assyria, and how will we escape?
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