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Then the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, "Take the rough cloth off your body, and take your sandals off your feet." So Isaiah obeyed and walked around naked and barefoot.

The king of Assyria will carry away prisoners from Egypt and Cush. Old people and young people will be led away naked and barefoot, with their buttocks bare. So the Egyptians will be shamed.

People who live near the sea will say, ‘Look at those countries. We trusted them to help us. We ran to them so they would save us from the king of Assyria. So how will we be able to escape?'"

So I say, "Don't look at me. Let me cry loudly. Don't hurry to comfort me about the destruction of Jerusalem."

So be sad, you trading ships, because your strong city is destroyed.

The profits will be saved for the Lord . Tyre will not keep the money she earns but will give them to the people who serve the Lord , so they will have plenty of food and nice clothes.

So a curse will destroy the earth. The people of the world are guilty, so they will be burned up; only a few will be left.

At that time people will say, "Our God is doing this! We have waited for him, and he has come to save us. This is the Lord . We waited for him, so we will rejoice and be happy when he saves us."

So, trust the Lord always, because he is our Rock forever.

Lord , all our success is because of what you have done, so give us peace.

The limbs will become dry and break off, so women will use them for firewood. The people refuse to understand, so God will not comfort them; their Maker will not be kind to them.

Every table is covered with vomit, so there is not a clean place anywhere.

So they make fun of the Lord 's prophet and say: "A command here, a command there. A rule here, a rule there. A little lesson here, a little lesson there."

So the Lord will use strange words and foreign languages to speak to these people.

So the words of the Lord will be, "A command here, a command there. A rule here, a rule there. A little lesson here, a little lesson there." They will fall back and be defeated; they will be trapped and captured.

So listen to the Lord 's message, you who brag, you leaders in Jerusalem.

Be surprised and amazed. Blind yourselves so that you cannot see. Become drunk, but not from wine. Trip and fall, but not from beer.

So I will continue to amaze these people by doing more and more miracles. Their wise men will lose their wisdom; their wise men will not be able to understand."

to Egypt whose help is useless. So I call that country Rahab the Do-Nothing.

Now write this on a sign for the people, write this on a scroll, so that for the days to come this will be a witness forever.