ISAIAH 19-20: “The Burden And The Restoration Of Egypt”

Jim Bomkamp

1. INTRO

1.1. In our last study we looked at the judgment and destruction which Isaiah prophesied against Damascus and Ethiopia

1.1.1. Damascus

1.1.1.1.Being the capital of Syria, this was the judgment of the nation of Syria that was in view

1.1.1.2.Ephraim, symbolizing the northern kingdom of Israel, was in league with Syria as we already saw in our study, and thus we see that Ephraim’s judgment is intermixed with that of Damascus

1.1.2. Ethiopia

1.1.2.1.This was a judgment on the nations around that area most likely, not just Ethiopia

1.1.3. We saw that Isaiah tried to persuade all nations and individuals who will listen that the only security that will ever be found in their day, or any day, is the security that is found in the Lord, for it is God who is setting up the world stage and who is doing so in order to bring in His kingdom.

1.1.4. We saw that we can learn from the book of Isaiah and these judgments against the nations that:

1.1.4.1.Hope rests only in the Lord

1.1.4.1.1.God is described here as being the ‘rock of your refuge’, as He is the one who surrounds and protects His people from all that is evil in the world

1.1.4.2.If one tries to place their hope in anything but the Lord, He will see it, and He will overthrow that which they hope in

1.1.4.3.When any people looks anywhere but to the Lord for their help and hope, they too will be overthrown and will be removed from being His people

1.1.4.4.It has been said and it is true that to not know history will result in your repeating it.

1.2. In our study today we are going to look at the ‘burden’ of Egypt that Isaiah prophesied against that nation, however we will see also that the Lord is going to one day restore to Himself the nation of Egypt to serve Him, along with Assyria and Israel

1.2.1. The nation of Egypt had been a great nation at one time, however now in Isaiah’s time she was mainly a has-been

1.2.2. The nation of Egypt would be conquered by Assyria because of the Lord confounding the internal infastructure of the nation, the external commerce of the nation, and the counsel of its counselors

1.2.3. The Lord’s plans during Christ’s Millennial Reign is to restore a faithful remnant of His people not only in Israel, but also in Egypt, Assyria, and among all of the nations on the earth

1.2.4. In our study we will look at the folly of trusting in that which God has judged and will overthrow instead of in the sufficiency of Christ

1.2.4.1.As we study about the ‘burden’ of the coming judgment and overthrow of the nation of Egypt and Isaiah’s trying to persuade all who listen that to trust in any nation is a death sentence and folly since the Lord has promised to judge all of the nations as He is the One who is setting the stage for all the nations as He is ushering in His kingdom upon the earth, we Christians must consider how foolish it is for us to trust in anything in this world as our hope. All of this world is going to be judged, and everything that we might look to to prop up our life is destined to collapse and become the ruin of us. Everything in this life that we might look to for our hope and help is a broken cistern which cannot contain the waters of life which alone can gives us salvation and life.

2. VS 19:1 – “1 The oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud, and is about to come to Egypt; The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence, And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.” - Isaiah pronounces the ‘burden’ of Egypt as God is intending to judge and overthrow that nation

2.1. As we look through the Old Testament we see that many years prior to Isaiah’s time the nation of Egypt had been a mighty nation and dominated the world. In fact, when we begin to read through the Old Testament we find that during the period after the patriarchs, Abraham and Isaac, that Egypt had become the major world player among the nations. In fact, the twelve sons of Jacob and their families had to take refuge in Egypt during 7 years of famine, and during that 7 years Egypt prospered while all of the other nations declined. The book of Genesis ends then with the death of Joseph and the Israelites still living and prospering off of the land of Egypt. However, after the death of Joseph, we read in Exodus 1:8 that the next king of Egypt didn’t know Joseph nor of the favor that he shared in the kingdom of Egypt and thus Egypt ended up enslaving the Israelites for four hundred years (Acts 7:6). The book of Exodus details how that the Lord raised up a leader in Moses and by the Lord’s mighty and outstretched arm the people were led out of Egypt. Egypt though was now in Isaiah’s time mostly a has-been, for she had declined since the time of Joseph and though in Isaiah’s time she was trying to convince her neighboring nations that they should pay her tribute and that she would be their protection against the up and coming Assyrian nation which was beginning to sweep across the nations, Isaiah knew that Egypt would be conquered by Assyria and that to seek protection in her would be futile.

2.2. When we read the accounts in the book of Exodus of how that the Lord delivered the Israelites out of slavery to the Egyptians, we see that the leaders as well as the common people in the land of Egypt are culpable for not coming to believe in and followed the Lord of Israel, for God had displayed among them wonders of a type which have been unsurpassed in the history of the world, with perhaps the exception of the miracles which Jesus performed.

2.2.1. We read in the Old Testament accounts that even all of the other nations in the world had heard of the mighty and miraculous works which the Lord performed, and thus the nations were rightly fearful of Israel when she went in to possess the land of Canaan and began to route the nations which occupied the land.

2.3. J. Alec Motyer writes about how that Isaiah tried to dissuade the nations, and particularly Judea of course, not to align itself with Egypt, “An alliance with Egypt as the means of throwing off the Assyrian yoke and recovering national sovereignty was a constant temptation to the politically ambitious rulers of Judah (see chapters 28-31 and 36-37). Isaiah resolutely opposed this, seeing in Egypt no help but on disaster (cf 30:6-7). Consequently, the burden of 19:1-15 is an attempt to dissuade them from having any truck with Egypt, based on an exposure of existing and coming disruption in Egyptian affairs, of economic collapse (such as would make aide unlikely if not impossible) and of political obtuseness besetting Egyptian counselors.”

2.4. The Lord is the One who is bringing about this judgment against Egypt, even though it will occur at the hands of Assyria, and thus the Lord is described by Isaiah as riding on a swift cloud and about to come to Egypt.

2.5. Curiously, Isaiah writes that the ‘idols of Egypt’ would tremble at the Lord’s presence when He comes to judge. I would suppose that since Paul taught us in 1 Cor. 10:19-20 that the person who is sacrificing to an idol is actually sacrificing to a demon, that it might be the evil spirit behind that idol that would be trembling, “19 What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?20 No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.”

2.6. Isaiah tells us that the people will have their hearts melt within them when the Lord begins to move into Egypt in order to judge and overthrow the nation at the hands of the Assyrians.

3. VS 19:2-4 - “2 “So I will incite Egyptians against Egyptians; And they will each fight against his brother, and each against his neighbor, City against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 “Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them; And I will confound their strategy, So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead, And to mediums and spiritists. 4 “Moreover, I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel master, And a mighty king will rule over them,” declares the Lord God of hosts.” - Isaiah tells us about how the Lord is planning to confound the Egyptian nation internally (in their infrastructure)

3.1. Isaiah saw that the Lord was in the process of bringing down Egypt as a super power by undermining her internal infrastructure. Thus, he knows that it would be futile for Judea or any other nation to seek refuge against Assyria in Egypt. We see in these verses then that the Lord is going to bring internal confusion amongst the Egyptians, and He will do this by causing them to be:

3.1.1. Incited against each other.

3.1.2. Fight against each other: brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and nation against nation.

3.1.3. ‘Demoralize’ their spirits.

3.1.4. Confound their strategy for world domination.

3.2. Instead of coming to the Lord and seeking His counsel, which would be the wise thing for them to do, the Egyptians instead will ‘resort to idols and ghosts of the dead and to mediums and spiritists’ for their counsel. However, the counsel they would give would be demonic in origin and destined to bring about their destruction.

3.2.1. It is sad that even in our day when non-believers seek counsel in the occult, in the mental health professionals, and even in the economists and investment professionals, and yet spurn going to the Lord for their counsel and help, how that Satan and his demonic host give counsel to the people which is known by those demonic host to bring about their destruction and misery.

3.2.2. If we will just come to the Lord and seek His will, we will find the path that leads to life and blessing.

3.2.2.1.Solomon wrote in Prov. 4:4 about how that the Lord spoke to him about how if he would just keep His commandments that he would live, “4 Then he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; Keep my commandments and live;”

3.2.2.2.In Heb. 12:9-11, Paul (whom I believe is the author) wrote about how that if we will just come to the Father and accept the discipline that He brings into our life for our own good that we will live and enjoy the ‘peaceful fruit of righteousness’, “9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”

3.2.2.3.In Jer. 2:13, Jeremiah wrote about the foolishness of the people who have rejected the Lord who would bring them living waters for what he calls broken cisterns that cannot hold any water, “13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns, That can hold no water.”

3.2.2.3.1.The wisdom and counsel of this world is just a broken cistern that can’t bring waters of life, but only the ways of death.

3.2.2.4.In Psalm 146:3-7, the Psalmist wrote about how we should trust in the Lord and in Him alone to be our help, for to hope in man is futile for in him there can be no salvation, “3 Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. 4 His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; In that very day his thoughts perish. 5 How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the Lord his God; 6 Who made heaven and earth, The sea and all that is in them; Who keeps faith forever; 7 Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free.”

3.2.2.5.In Col. 2:3,8-10 Paul wrote about how we must be careful to not be taken captive by philosophy and empty deception, for all wisdom and knowledge is to found in Christ, and the Christian is ‘complete’ in Him, “3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge…8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.9 For in Him all the fulness of Deity dwells in bodily form,10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;”

3.2.2.5.1.Christ is our sufficiency, for when Paul writes that we are complete, that means that we have all that we will ever need and that we will need nothing else.

3.2.2.5.2.In 2 Cor. 3:5, Paul wrote about how our sufficiency is of God, “5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.”

3.2.2.5.2.1.In other words, God is enough to meet every need and challenge which His people face.

3.2.2.5.3.When we place our hope in man or the arm of man, we are being set up for a let down. Even if for a brief time the arm of man which we trust in is strong and protects and sustains us, that arm just cannot sustain us beyond this world, only Christ can do that.

3.2.2.5.4.Matthew Henry once wrote the following about the sufficiency of Christ for the Christian, “The God of Israel is he that gives strength and power unto his people, which the gods of the nations, that were vanity and a lie, could not give to their worshippers; how should they help them, when they could not help themselves? All Israel’s strength against their enemies came from God; they owned they had no might of their own, 2 Chr. 20:12. And all our sufficiency for our spiritual work and warfare is from the grace of God. It is through Christ strengthening us that we can do all things, and not otherwise; and therefore he must have the glory of all we do (Ps. 115:1) and our humble thanks for enabling us to do it and accepting the work of his own hands in us. If it be the God of Israel that gives strength and power unto his people, they ought to say, Blessed be God. If all be from him, let all be to him.”

3.2.2.6.In Eph. 3:19-20, Paul in his prayer for the Ephesians mentioned how we Christians need to press on to know the great depth of the love of God for us and be ‘filled up with all of the fullness of God’, and that God is able to do for us beyond whatever we might even ask or think, as he prays that they, “18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fulness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us.”

3.3. The cruel master and king that Isaiah prophesied would rule over the Egyptians is an Assyrian king, however there are differences in opinion about which of the kings is most likely the one referenced. However, Assyria would conquer and rule over Egypt, though it did not destroy its cities.

4. VS 19:5-10 - “5 And the waters from the sea will dry up, And the river will be parched and dry. 6 And the canals will emit a stench, The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up; The reeds and rushes will rot away. 7 The bulrushes by the Nile, by the edge of the Nile And all the sown fields by the Nile Will become dry, be driven away, and be no more. 8 And the fishermen will lament, And all those who cast a line into the Nile will mourn, And those who spread nets on the waters will pine away. 9 Moreover, the manufacturers of linen made from combed flax And the weavers of white cloth will be utterly dejected. 10 And the pillars of Egypt will be crushed; All the hired laborers will be grieved in soul.” - Isaiah tells us about how the Lord is planning to confound the Egyptian nation externally (in their commerce)

4.1. Isaiah knew prophetically that the Lord was in the process of destroying the huge commercial industry of the nation and thus the nation would not be able to withstand the insurgence of the Assyrian nation when it moved to conquer Egypt. Thus, it would mean total ruin for Judea or any other nation to look to Egypt as their protector.

4.1.1. The Nile River was the very life-source of the nation of Egypt. It was central to all commerce in the nation of Egypt as it provided fertile areas for growing crops, water to irrigate the crops, a huge fishing industry to feed the people, and a means for transportation in commerce to be carried out. The Columbia Encyclopedia gives us the following overview concerning the importance of the Nile River to not only Egypt but much of Africa, saying it is the, “longest river in the world, c.4,160 mi (6,695 km) long from its remotest headstream, the Luvironza River in Burundi, central Africa, to its delta on the Mediterranean Sea, NE Egypt. The Nile flows northward and drains c.1,100,000 sq mi (2,850,000 sq km), about one tenth of Africa, including parts of Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Congo (Kinshasa). Its waters support practically all agriculture in the most densely populated parts of Egypt, furnish water for more than 20% of Sudan’s total crop area, and are widely used throughout the basin for navigation and hydroelectric power… The use of the Nile for irrigation, now regulated by the Nile Waters Treaty of 1959, dates back to at least 4000 B.C. in Egypt. The traditional system of basin irrigation—in which Nile floods were trapped in shallow basins and a cool-season crop of wheat or barley was grown in soaked and silt-replenished soil—has been replaced since the mid-1800s by a system of perennial irrigation and the production of two or three crops a year, including cotton, sugarcane, and peanuts.”

4.1.2. If the Nile River were to fail, the commerce of the nation of Egypt would come to a grinding halt. This is exactly what Isaiah tells us was to happen to the nation:

4.1.2.1.The ‘waters of the sea’, speaking actually of the Nile, were to dry up.

4.1.2.2.The streams from the Nile would thin out and dry up.

4.1.2.3.The vegetation in the Nile would die out as the waters subsided.

4.1.2.4.The sown fields of crops would dry up and blow away.

4.1.2.5.The fishing industry would be virtually non-existent.

4.1.2.6.All of the cloth and linen which were made from the crops grown in the Nile basin would not be able to be produced, and thus all of the workers whose living came from those industries would be out of work.

5. VS 19:11-15 - “11 The princes of Zoan are mere fools; The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become stupid. How can you men say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”? 12 Well then, where are your wise men? Please let them tell you, And let them understand what the Lord of hosts Has purposed against Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan have acted foolishly, The princes of Memphis are deluded; Those who are the cornerstone of her tribes Have led Egypt astray. 14 The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of distortion; They have led Egypt astray in all that it does, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit. 15 And there will be no work for Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.” - Isaiah tells us about how the Lord is planning to confound the Egyptian nation through the counsel of her counselors

5.1. Isaiah saw it already happening that the counselors of Egypt were being deceived. He writes that the prominent men and leaders as well as the soothsayers of the nation of Egypt are going to be given a spirit of confusion themselves as the Lord will see that they are deceived and thus give counsel that will only lead to the destruction of the nation.

5.2. Isaiah writes in a taunting way towards the counselors of Egypt, taunting them to call themselves wise or to call out their worthless wisdom.

5.3. Isaiah writes that the Egyptians are being led astray to such an extent that they are as a drunken man who is staggering in his vomit.

5.4. The counsel of Egypt’s counselors will bring the progress of the nation to a halt.

5.5. It is foolish in the first place to trust in the wisdom of this world, for God is committed to overthrowing the wise in this world and as well as their worldly wisdom, as Paul wrote in 1 Cor. 1:27-31, “27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,28 and the base things of the world and the despised, God has chosen, the things that are not, that He might nullify the things that are,29 that no man should boast before God.30 But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,31 that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.””

6. VS 19:16-22 - “16 In that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in dread because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.17 And the land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt; everyone to whom it is mentioned will be in dread of it, because of the purpose of the Lord of hosts which He is purposing against them. 18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing allegiance to the Lord of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction. 19 In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord near its border.20 And it will become a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Champion, and He will deliver them.21 Thus the Lord will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day. They will even worship with sacrifice and offering, and will make a vow to the Lord and perform it.22 And the Lord will strike Egypt, striking but healing; so they will return to the Lord, and He will respond to them and will heal them.” - Isaiah tells us that Egypt will one day be restored to God and serve Him along with Israel

6.1. We have seen throughout the book of Isaiah that the Lord has told the nation of Israel that though He was going to judge, overthrow, and destroy the nation that at some point in time that He was also going to heal her back-slidings and restore a faithful remnant in the land.

6.2. Here, Isaiah tells us that Egypt will be restored to the Lord. That is to say, a remnant of Egypt who will find and serve the living God will One day occupy the nation. This will occur during the Millennial Reign of Christ after God has judged all of the nations and removed all who are not God’s people from the face of the earth.

6.2.1. God is yet going to do a work even among the Muslim nations of the world today.

6.3. We read in Rev. 5:9 that as Christ is getting ready to open the book which has been called by commentators the ‘title deed to the earth’, that Christ will have people from every tribe and people group who will be His people to serve Him in His Millennial kingdom, “9 And they *sang a new song, saying, “Worthy art Thou to take the book, and to break its seals; for Thou wast slain, and didst purchase for God with Thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.”

6.4. It is interesting here that the people of the nation of Egypt are trembling and that they are in fear of the Israelites. This must be because when Christ returns to Jerusalem after the 7 year Tribulation of the book of Revelation and begins to set up His kingdom and to rule from Israel that the rest of the world shall be in fear at that time and seek to do homage to those who have been called specially to be a nation unto God.

6.5. When the Lord begins to restore Egypt to Himself, it is interesting that it says that five of the cities in Egypt will begin to speak Hebrew, the language of the Israelites.

6.5.1. A note here is that it is believed by some that Hebrew was a language which God Himself created and gave to man. Then, at the tower of Babel He confused the language and the people all began to speak different languages, but when He returns He will restore the language He created to the people on the earth and everyone will speak Hebrew.

6.6. It is also interesting to read here that when the Lord begins to restore Egypt to Himself that they will build an altar and a pillar to the Lord and that these will serve as signs to the people.

6.7. When God begins to restore the Egyptians to Himself we read that they will begin to cry out to Him for a deliverer, and one will come who will be their savior and champion, and then the nation will begin to worship the Lord.

6.8. We see here that concerning Egypt that though the Lord will judge and discipline them that just as occurred with Israel, He will do this so that He can also heal their wounds and bring them into fellowship with Himself.

7. VS 19:23-24 - “23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. 24 In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,” - Isaiah tells us that when Egypt is restored to the Lord that the Assyrians will worship with the Egyptians and Israel, and the three nations will together be a blessing to the earth

7.1. In these verses we see that not only is the Lord going to restore Egypt to Himself, He is also going to restore the nation of Assyria. The Lord is going to do a mighty work amongst a remnant of all of the nations of the earth during His Millennial kingdom, including even doing a work among the Moslem nations of the world.

7.2. These are incredible revelations which Isaiah has given us, of the nations of Egypt, Assyria, and Israel forming a three-some group of nations which will be a blessing to all of the earth.

7.3. Again we see that though the Lord will judge the wicked and rebellious nations of the earth that He will one day restore a remnant of all of the peoples. God’s desire would be that all come to salvation through Christ, however He has given a free-will to men and they must make the choice of their own free will to come to Him, for He will not force Himself upon any man.

8. VS 19:1-4 - “1 In the year that the commander came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,2 at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loosen the sackcloth from your hips, and take your shoes off your feet.” And he did so, going naked and barefoot.3 And the Lord said, “Even as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and token against Egypt and Cush,4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.” - The Lord tells Isaiah to go naked and barefoot for three years

8.1. In this next section, Isaiah reverts back to the events that were to occur during the near future of his own day, and the judgments that would occur against Egypt and Cush, which was comprised of Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia.

8.2. I have often thought that it must have been difficult to be an Old Testament prophet. These prophets were asked to do some difficult things as part of revealing God’s will to the nations.

8.2.1. Hosea had to go and to marry a prostitute, have two sons from her, and then later bring her back after she had run off with another man.

8.2.2. Ezekiel had to lay on his side for over a year.

8.2.3. Isaiah had to go around naked for three years.

8.3. It is debated about whether or not Isaiah was totally naked or whether he just had to run around with a loin cloth on, however I would say that more of the commentators I have read have said that he just wore a loin cloth type of clothing during this time.

8.4. The New Bible Dictionary has the following entry concerning the city of Ashdod, “Tel Ashdod, 6 km SE of the modern village, was a major Philistinian city, first mentioned in Late Bronze Age texts (Jos. 11:22) dealing with Ugarit. It may have withstood attempts by Judah to conquer it and settle there (Jos. 13:3; 15:46-47). It had a principal port (Ashdod-Yam; in Akkadian sources Asdudimmu cf. ANET, p. 286) and a temple of Dagon to which the ark was taken (1 Sa. 5:1ff.). It was attacked by Uzziah of Judah (2 Ch. 26:6). When it rebelled against Assyria, who replaced King Azuri by his brother, Asdudu was sacked, according to Assyr. inscriptions, by Sargon II in 711 bc. These calamities were noted by Amos (1:8) and Isaiah (20:1).”

8.5. After the Assyrians took the captives from the city of Ashdod of the Philistines, the Lord commanded Isaiah to go naked (probably just wear a loin cloth) in order to demonstrate to the people how that captives of the nations of Egypt and Cush would be led away by their Assyrian conquerors.

8.5.1. Isaiah’s nakedness gave opportunity to witness. Many people must have asked Isaiah why he was walking around with only a loin cloth on, and going about like this surely led Isaiah into many opportunities to share what significance his nakedness had in a prophetical sense.

9. VS 20:5-6 - “5 “Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and Egypt their boast.6 “So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?’”” - Isaiah tells us that when God overthrows Egypt at the hands of Assyria that the people will be dismayed and ashamed

9.1. Not in the too distant future from Isaiah the nation of Egypt as well as the nation of Ethiopia, and its surrounding neighbors, were going to be overthrown by the Lord because of their rebellion against the Lord, and in that day the peoples of those nations will be both dismayed and ashamed because of their false hope which they had.

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