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Then the Lord said, ‘Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Ethiopia,[a] so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as captives and the Ethiopians[b] as exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. And they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Ethiopia[c] their hope and of Egypt their boast.

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  1. Isaiah 20:3 Or Nubia; Heb Cush
  2. Isaiah 20:4 Or Nubians; Heb Cushites
  3. Isaiah 20:5 Or Nubia; Heb Cush

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