Ecclesiasticus 20:4

Nova Vulgata

sic minabit rex Assyriorum captivos Aegypti et exsules Aethiopiae, iuvenes et senes, nudos et discalceatos, discoopertis natibus ad ignominiam Aegypti.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
sic minabit rex Assyriorum captivitatem �gypti, et transmigrationem �thiopi�, juvenum et senum, nudam et discalceatam, discoopertis natibus, ad ignominiam �gypti.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
sic minabit rex Assyriorum captivitatem �gypti,
et transmigrationem �thiopi�,
juvenum et senum, nudam et discalceatam, discoopertis natibus, ad ignominiam �gypti.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall: Isaiah 19:4, Jeremiah 46:26, Ezekiel 30:18

Egyptians: Heb. captivity of Egypt

with their: Isaiah 3:17, 2 Samuel 10:4, Jeremiah 13:22, Jeremiah 13:26, Micah 1:11

shame: Heb. nakedness, Revelation 3:18

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 15:30 - barefoot 1 Chronicles 19:4 - and cut Isaiah 19:20 - they shall Isaiah 31:2 - against the help Isaiah 32:11 - strip Isaiah 47:2 - make bare Jeremiah 46:19 - furnish thyself to go into captivity Jeremiah 48:39 - a derision Jeremiah 51:22 - General Ezekiel 30:5 - Ethiopia Nahum 3:10 - she carried Habakkuk 2:16 - and let Zephaniah 2:12 - Ethiopians

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives,.... As beasts are led or driven, being taken prisoners, and carried captive by the king of Assyria, namely Sargon, whoever is intended by him:

young and old; without any regard to age, sparing none for their tender years or gray hairs:

naked and barefoot; as prisoners of war commonly are, being stripped by their conquerors of their clothes, and having only a few rags given them to cover their nakedness with, and obliged to travel without shoes on their feet:

even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt; having no clothes on them to cover those parts; or the skirts of their garments cut off, as David's servants were by the Ammonites,

2 Samuel 10:4 and this to humble and mortify the pride of the Egyptians.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So shall the king of Assyria - The emphasis here is on the word “so.” As Isaiah has walked naked, that is, stripped off his usual clothing, “so” shall the Egyptians and Ethiopians be led away “stripped” of all their possessions.

The Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives - The Egyptians and Ethiopians, or Cushites, were often united in an alliance, and appear to have been when this prophecy was delivered. Thus Nahum 3:8 :

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite;

Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

To the shame of Egypt - It shall be a disgrace to them to be subdued, and to be carried captive in so humiliating a manner. It is remarked by Belzoni (‘Operations and Recent Discoveries in Egypt and Nubia’), that in the figures on the remains of their temples, prisoners are often represented as naked, or only in aprons, with disheveled hair, and with their hands chained. He also remarks, that on a “bas-relief,” on the recently-discovered graves of the kings of Thebes, a multitude of “Egyptian and Ethiopian prisoners” are represented - showing that Egypt and Ethiopia were sometimes “allied,” alike in mutual defense and in bondage (compare Isaiah 47:2, and Nahum 3:5).