In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and captured it— at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking naked and barefoot. Comment: There are groups of people around the world who basically go around all the time naked. They are on the whole modest and do not do it for erotic reasons. They are much more modest than the scantily, provocatively dressed display of many people in the West these days! We occasionally saw naked people in the capital of the city of the country in which we worked. Quite frankly except for the new foreigner no one took any notice of them. They were usually mentally challenged, rarely because they were so poor that they had nothing. But here we see a highly respected, well known person in a fully dressed community! He stood out! His message was important! God ordered it!
Then the LORD said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush, so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt. Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast. And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’” Comment: There is a lot of archeological proof of this prophecy being carried out. I will not go into that in detail. This prophecy was to prove to the Jews that, when they saw the Cushites (?Ethiopians) and Egyptians being led away naked by the Assyrians, their trust in an alliance with those countries was pointless! Israelis were the people that God had chosen and promised to protect them IF they were true to Him! They often weren’t. I found a helpful piece on this passage in the commentary by Jamieson Fausset and Brown, if you like to follow it up further, or you can open the following link on your IT server – https://biblehub.com/q/Isaiah_20_5_events_archaeological_proof.htm
Numbers 23: 19 – God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Prayer: Help me to build my life on the rock of Your promises, please.
As I read it! 