Isaiah 20:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as captives and the Cushites as exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Ethiopian exiles, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with buttocks uncovered–to the shame of Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

⁴ so will the king of Assyria lead the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, both young and old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks bared, humiliating Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ so also will the king of the Assyrians force the captivity of Egypt, and the transmigration of Ethiopia: young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:4 Cross References

Isaiah 19:4

I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master; a fierce king will rule over them, says the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 13:26

I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you say in your heart, “Why have these things come upon me?” it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you are violated.

Revelation 3:18

Therefore I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white robes to clothe yourself and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

Micah 1:11

Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come forth; Beth-ezel is wailing and shall remove its support from you.

Ezekiel 30:18

At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the dominion of Egypt, and its proud might shall come to an end; the city shall be covered by a cloud, and its daughter towns shall go into captivity.

Jeremiah 46:26

I will hand them over to those who seek their life, to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon and his servants. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, says the Lord.

Isaiah 47:3

Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.

Isaiah 3:17

the Lord will afflict with scabs the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their scalps and heads.

2 Samuel 10:4

So Hanun seized David’s envoys, shaved off half the beard of each, cut off their garments in the middle at their waists, and sent them away.

Isaiah 47:2

Take the millstones and grind meal; remove your veil; strip off your robe; uncover your legs; pass through the rivers.

Jeremiah 46:19

Pack your bags for exile, sheltered daughter Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant.

Amos 9:7

Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel? says the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?

Nahum 3:10

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; even her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; lots were cast for her nobles; all her dignitaries were bound in fetters.

Zephaniah 2:12

You also, O Cushites, shall be killed by my sword.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun seized David’s servants, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at their waists, and sent them away,

Isaiah 31:2

Yet he is wise and can bring disaster; he does not depart from his words but will rise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are human and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and the one helped will fall, and they will all perish together.