Isaiah 20:5

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it, ²the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, "Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet." And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot. ³Then the LORD said, "Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years, as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush, ⁴so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks-to Egypt's shame. ⁵Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.⁶And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, 'See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

afraid: Isaiah 30:3, Isaiah 30:5, Isaiah 30:7, Isaiah 36:6, 2 Kings 18:21, Ezekiel 29:6, Ezekiel 29:7

their glory: Isaiah 2:22, Jeremiah 9:23, Jeremiah 9:24, Jeremiah 17:5, 1 Corinthians 3:21

Reciprocal: Psalms 4:2 - my glory Isaiah 30:2 - walk Jeremiah 2:36 - thou also shalt Jeremiah 22:20 - and cry Jeremiah 46:25 - and all Lamentations 4:17 - our eyes Ezekiel 29:16 - the confidence Ezekiel 30:9 - messengers Nahum 3:9 - Ethiopia Zephaniah 2:12 - Ethiopians Zechariah 9:5 - for

Cross-References

Joshua 22:22
"The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today.

1 Kings 9:4
And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

2 Kings 20:3
"Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

1 Chronicles 29:17
I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

Job 33:9
'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

Psalms 7:8
The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.

Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

Psalms 25:21
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.

Psalms 26:6
I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

Psalms 73:13
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they shall be afraid and ashamed,.... That is, those that trusted and depended upon the Egyptians and Ethiopians, particularly the Jews after mentioned, shall be "afraid" that it will be their turn next, that they also shall be taken and carried captive; and they shall be "ashamed" that they have put their trust and confidence in those nations, and not in the Lord:

of Ethiopia their expectation; from whom they expected assistance and protection, particularly when Tirhakah king of Ethiopia went out against the king of Assyria, that he would have been a match for him, and have overcome him, and so have freed them from such a powerful enemy:

and of Egypt their glory; who was their ally, and a very potent one, and in whom they gloried; but now should be ashamed, when both those people on whom they relied were carried captive.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they shall be afraid - The Jews, or the party or faction among the Jews, that were expecting aid from allied Ethiopia and Egypt. When they shall see them vanquished, they shall apprehend a similar danger to themselves; and they shall be ashamed that they ever confided in a people so little able to aid them, instead of trusting in the arm of God.

Egypt their glory - Their boast, as if Egypt was able to save them. The word rendered here ‘glory’ (תפארת tiph'ereth) means properly, “ornament, praise, honor;” and then it may mean the “object” of glory, or that in which people boast or confide. That is its sense here (compare Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 13:19; Zechariah 12:7).