Episode 182 : Isaiah walks naked and barefoot for three years
(as a sign and a wonder)

Isaiah 13-23

Howl, because God’s day is here!

13 ³ God is angry, so he called all his sanctified and mighty ones to destroy the earth. ⁶ God's day is here, so everyone should howl. He will destroy everything. ⁷ Everyone will be weak, and their hearts will melt. ⁸ They will be afraid and in pain, like a woman in childbirth. Their faces will be on fire. ⁹ God's cruel day is coming. He'll kill all the sinners. ¹⁰ The sun, moon, and stars will no longer produce light. ¹³ God will shake the heavens and move the earth out of its place. ¹⁵ Everyone who is found will be killed with a sword (along with whoever they are joined to). ¹⁶ Their children will be dashed together while they watch, and their wives will be raped. ^17-18 God will force the Medes to dash the young men to pieces, and they won't have pity on children, infants, or babies. ¹⁹ God will do to Babylon what he did to Sodom and Gomorrah. And it will never be inhabited again. ²¹ He'll kill all its people, but leave the satyrs, who will dance there. ²² And dragons will lounge in their pleasant palaces.

The serpent’s root, a cockatrice’s fruit, and a fiery flying serpent

14 ¹ God will again choose Israel as his favorite people. ² The Israelites will enslave those who had previously enslaved them. ²¹ The children will be slaughtered for what their ancestors did. ²² God will kill everyone in Babylon. ²⁵ He will trample the Assyrians under his foot. ²⁹ Out of the serpent's root will come a cockatrice, and from the cockatrice's fruit, a fiery flying serpent.

God will send lions to eat them

15 ² Moab will howl. All their heads will be bald, and all their beards will be cut off. ³ They will gird themselves with sackcloth, and everyone will weep and howl. ⁹ The rivers of Dimon will be full of blood, because God will bring lions to eat those who escape from Moab.

Howl for Moab

16 ⁷ Moab will howl for Moab. Everyone will howl. ¹¹ Therefore, my bowels will sound like a harp for Moab. ¹⁴ Moab will be destroyed, along with most of its people.

The burden of Damascus

17 ¹ Damascus will become a ruinous heap.

Woe to Ethiopia

18 ¹ Woe to Ethiopia, the land of shadowing wings. ⁶ God will feed them to the birds and beasts. The birds will feast on them in the summer, and the beasts in the winter.

God comes to Egypt riding on a swift cloud

19 ¹ God will travel to Egypt on a swift cloud, and the heart of Egypt will melt. ^2-4 When he arrives, he'll force the Egyptians to fight each other and give them to a cruel lord and fierce king, who will rule over them.

⁵ The Nile River will dry up. ⁸ The fish will die. ¹⁴ God will send them a perverse spirit, making them like drunken men who fall in their own vomit. ¹⁶ Egypt will be like a woman, who shakes with fear as God shakes his hand over it. ²² He will smite and then heal Egypt. And they will return to him.

Isaiah walks naked and barefoot for three years (as a sign and a wonder

20 ¹ God said to Isaiah, "Take off the sackcloth from your loins, and your shoes from your feet."

² So Isaiah did that, walking naked and barefoot.

³ God said,

Isaiah walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a wonder.

⁴ So will the king of Assyria lead Egyptian and Ethiopian prisoners naked and barefoot (with their buttocks uncovered).

My loins are filled with pain

21 ³ My loins are filled with pain, like a woman in childbirth. I was dismayed at the sight of it.

Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die

22 ¹² On that day, God told you to weep, pull your hair out, and put on sackcloth. ¹³ But instead you celebrated by eating and drinking, saying,

Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

¹⁴ But I heard God say, "I'll never forgive them for this."

^17-18 God will toss you like a ball, and you’ll die.

Tyre will sing like a harlot

23 ¹ Howl, ye ships of Tarshish. ⁶ Howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. ^15-17 At the end of 70 years, Tyre will sing like a harlot and God will visit her, and she’ll fornicate with all the kingdoms of the world. ¹⁸ But she won't receive payment for her services. That money will go to God's people to buy food and durable clothing.