1 Εν τω έτει καθ' ο ο Ταρτάν ήλθεν εις την Άζωτον, ότε απέστειλεν αυτόν ο Σαργών βασιλεύς της Ασσυρίας και επολέμησε κατά της Αζώτου και εκυρίευσεν αυτήν, 2 κατά τον αυτόν καιρόν ελάλησεν ο Κύριος προς Ησαΐαν τον υιόν του Αμώς, λέγων, Ύπαγε και λύσον τον σάκκον από της οσφύος σου και έκβαλε τα σανδάλια σου από των ποδών σου. Και έκαμεν ούτω, περιπατών γυμνός και ανυπόδητος. 3 Και είπε Κύριος, Καθώς ο δούλός μου Ησαΐας περιεπάτει γυμνός και ανυπόδητος τρία έτη, διά σημείον και τεράστιον κατά της Αιγύπτου και κατά της Αιθιοπίας, 4 ούτως ο βασιλεύς της Ασσυρίας θέλει απαγάγει τους Αιγυπτίους δεσμίους και τους Αιθίοπας αιχμαλώτους, νέους και γέροντας, γυμνούς και ανυποδήτους, με γυμνά μάλιστα τα οπίσθια αυτών, προς καταισχύνην της Αιγύπτου. 5 Και θέλουσι τρομάξει και εντραπή διά την Αιθιοπίαν, το θάρρος αυτών· και διά την Αίγυπτον, το καύχημα αυτών. 6 Και οι κάτοικοι του τόπου τούτου θέλουσι λέγει εν εκείνη τη ημέρα, Ιδού, τοιούτον είναι το καταφύγιον ημών, εις το οποίον καταφεύγομεν προς βοήθειαν, διά να ελευθερωθώμεν από του βασιλέως της Ασσυρίας· και πως ημείς θέλομεν σωθή;
Isaiah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Isaiah 20 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
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Sargon
The king of Assyria who sent his chief commander to attack and capture Ashdod.
Cited in the guide: Isaiah 20:1
Cross references (6)
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- 1 2 Kings 18:17; 1 Samuel 6:17; Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 25:29–30; Amos 1:8
- 2 Micah 1:8; Matthew 3:4; 1 Samuel 19:24; Ezekiel 24:23; Ezekiel 24:17
- 3 Isaiah 8:18; Isaiah 18:1–7; Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:5–6; Isaiah 43:3
- 4 Isaiah 19:4; Jeremiah 13:26; Jeremiah 13:22; 2 Samuel 10:4; Ezekiel 30:18
- 5 Isaiah 30:3; Isaiah 30:5; Jeremiah 9:23–24; 1 Corinthians 3:21; Ezekiel 29:6–7
- 6 Hebrews 2:3; Matthew 23:33; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Jeremiah 30:15–17; Jeremiah 47:4
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Since Adam too was "naked" in paradise, "and was not ashamed;" and Isaiah was "naked, and barefoot," and more glorious than all the Jews; and Joseph also, when he stripped himself, did then more than ever shine forth.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)