Chapter 20

The ignominious captivity of Ægyptians and Æthiopians is again foreshewed by the Prophet going naked. ℣.5 whereat the Jews are astonished and afraid, seeing their confederates so confounded.

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   In the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when Sargon the king of the Assyrians had sent him, and he had fought against Azotus, and had taken it:

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   at that time our Lord spake in the hand of Isaie the son of Amos, saying: Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take off thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so going naked, and barefoot.

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   And our Lord said: As my servant Isaie hath walked, naked and barefoot, it shall be a sign and a wonder of three years upon Ægypt, and upon Aethiopia,

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   so shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Ægypt, and the transmigration of Aethiopia, young and old, naked and unshod, their buttocks uncovered to the ignominy of Ægypt.

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   And they shall fear, & be ashamed of Aethiopia their hope, and of Ægypt their glory.

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   And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day: Lo this was our hope, to whom we fled for help, that they should deliver us from the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape?