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Isaiah 20:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

so the king of Assyria will lead the captives of Egypt  and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, stripped and barefoot, with bared buttocks #– #to Egypt’s shame.

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I will hand over Egypt to harsh masters, and a strong king will rule it. This is the declaration of the Lord  God of Armies.


I will pull your skirts up over your face so that your shame might be seen.


And when you ask yourself, ‘Why have these things happened to me? ’ it is because of your great guilt that your skirts have been stripped off, your body exposed.


I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire so that you may be rich,   white clothes so that you may be dressed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed,   and ointment to spread on your eyes so that you may see.


Depart in shameful nakedness, you residents of Shaphir; the residents of Zaanan  will not come out. Beth-ezel is lamenting; its support  is taken from you.


The day will be dark  in Tehaphnehes, when I break the yoke of Egypt there and its proud strength comes to an end in the city. A cloud  will cover Tehaphnehes, and its surrounding villages will go into captivity.


I will hand them over to those who intend to take their lives   #– #to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his officers. But after this,  Egypt  will be inhabited again as in ancient times.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.


Your nakedness will be uncovered, and your disgrace will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.’


the Lord will put scabs on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will shave their foreheads bare.


So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved off half their beards,  cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.


Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams.


Get your bags ready for exile, inhabitant of Daughter Egypt! For Memphis will become a desolation, uninhabited ruins.


Israelites, are you not like the Cushites to me? This is the  Lord’s declaration. Didn’t I bring Israel from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor,  , and the Arameans from Kir?


Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her children were also dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.


You Cushites will also be slain by my sword.


So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.


But he also is wise and brings disaster. He does not go back on what he says; he will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.


Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the Lord raises his hand to strike, the helper will stumble and the one who is helped will fall; both will perish together.





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