Isaiah 20 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ In the year that Tartan entered Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria, sent him,––and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,–– ² At that time, spake Yahweh, through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, And, thy sandal, draw thou off from thy foot,––And he did so, walking disrobed and barefoot. ³ Then said Yahweh,––As my servant Isaiah, hath walked, disrobed and barefoot, three years, as a sign and a wonder, against Egypt and against Ethiopia, ⁴ So, shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, disrobed and barefoot,––with their persons behind uncovered, the shame of Egypt. ⁵ Thus shall they be confounded, and turn pale,––For Ethiopia, their expectation, and, For Egypt, their boast; ⁶ And the inhabitant of this shore, shall exclaim, in that day, Lo! such, is our expectation, whereunto we fled for help, that we might be delivered from the presence of the king of Assyria! How then shall, we, escape?

¹ Now, the Philistines, having taken the ark of God,––brought it in from Eben–ezer, unto Ashdod.

¹⁷ Now, these, are the golden boils which, the Philistines returned as a guilt–offering unto Yahweh,––For Ashdod, one, for Gaza, one, for Ashkelon, one, for Gath, one, for Ekron, one;

¹⁷ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab–saris and Rab–shakeh, from Lachish unto King Hezekiah, with a heavy force to Jerusalem,––so they came up and drew near to Jerusalem, and took their stand by the upper channel of the pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

²⁰ And all the Bedawin, and all the kings of the land of Uz,––and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, even Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

²⁹ For lo! with the city on which my Name hath been called, am I, making a beginning of sending calamity, And shall, ye, be held, guiltless? Ye shall not be held guiltless: For, a sword, am I, proclaiming against all the inhabitants of the earth, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.
³⁰ Thou, therefore, shalt prophesy against them all these words,––and shalt say unto them––Yahweh, from on high, will roar. Yea, from his holy, habitation, will utter his voice, He will, roar mightily, over his home, With a shout as of them who tread the winepress, will he answer unto all the inhabitants of the earth.

⁸ And I will cut off the inhabitant out of Ashdod, and the holder of the sceptre out of Ashkelon,––and will turn my hand against Ekron, So shall perish the remnant of the Philistines, saith My Lord, Yahweh.

⁵ And he said––Do not draw nigh hither,––put off thy sandals from thy feet, for, the place whereon thou art standing, is, holy ground.

¹⁵ Then said the prince of the host of Yahweh unto Joshua––Slip off thy sandals from thy feet, for, as for the place whereon thou art standing, holy, it is. And Joshua did so.

²⁴ And, even he, stripped off his upper garments, and, even he, was moved to prophesy before Samuel, and lay prostrate, disrobed, all that day, and all the night. For this cause, do they say, Is, even Saul, among the prophets?

²⁰ and David returned, to bless his household. Then came forth Michal Saul’s daughter to meet David, and said––How honoured, today, was the king of Israel in disrobing himself today, in the sight of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the low people, might disrobe himself?

⁸ And they said unto him––A hairy man, with a leathern girdle girt about his loins. And he said––Elijah the Tishbite, it was.

²⁰ Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell to the earth and worshipped; ²¹ and said––Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked must I return thither, Yahweh, gave, and, Yahweh, hath taken away,––The name of Yahweh be blessed!

¹ The oracle on Babylon,––of which Isaiah, son of Amoz, had vision:––

¹ Thus, said Yahweh unto me,––Go, and buy for thyself, a linen girdle, and put upon thy loins,––but, in water, shalt thou not place it. ² So I bought a girdle, according to the word of Yahweh,––and put upon my loins. ³ Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, second time, saying: ⁴ Take the girdle which thou hast bought, which is upon thy loins,––and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there, in a hole of the cliff. ⁵ So I went, and hid it, by the Euphrates, as Yahweh had commanded me. ⁶ And it came to pass, at the end of many days,––that Yahweh said unto me,––Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence, the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there. ⁷ So I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle, out of the place where I had hidden it,––and lo! the girdle, was spoiled, it was good for nothing. ⁸ Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying: ⁹ Thus, saith Yahweh,––After this manner, will I spoil the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ This wicked people, who are refusing to hear my words, who are walking in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow down to them, yea let them be like this girdle, which is good for nothing. ¹¹ For, as a girdle cleaveth unto the loins of a man, so, caused I to cleave unto me––the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah, Declareth Yahweh, to become mine––For a people, and, For a name, and, For a praise, and, For an adorning,––but they hearkened not.

¹ Thus said Yahweh, Go and buy a potter’s earthen bottle,––and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; ² Then shalt thou go forth into the valley of Ben–hinnom, which is at the opening of the gate of potsherds; and proclaim there, the words which I shall speak unto thee; ³ and shalt say,––Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah, And inhabitants of Jerusalem,––Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––God of Israel, Behold me! bringing in calamity upon this place, which shall cause the ears of, every one that heareth it, to tingle: ⁴ Because they have forsaken me, And have treated this as a foreign place, And have burned incense therein to other, gods, which, neither they, nor their fathers, nor the kings of Judah, have known; And have filled this place with the blood of innocents; ⁵ And have built the high places of Baal, for burning up their sons in the fire, as ascending–sacrifices to Baal,––Which I commanded not, Nor spake, Neither came it up on my heart, ⁶ Therefore, lo! days coming, Declareth Yahweh, When this place shall be called no longer, The Topheth, or, The Valley of Ben–hinnom,––but––The Valley of Slaughter; ⁷ And I will pour out the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem, in this place, And I will cause them to fall by the sword, before their enemies, and by the hand of them who seek their life,–– ⁸ And I will give their dead bodies, for food, to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth; And I will make this city a desolation, and a hissing,––every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and hiss, over all her wounds; ⁹ And I will suffer them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, yea, every one––the flesh of his friend, will they eat,––in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith, their enemies, and they who seek their lives, will straiten them.
¹⁰ Then shalt thou break the bottle, before the eyes of the men who are walking with thee; ¹¹ and shalt say unto them––Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––Thus and thus, will I break this people, and this city, As one breaketh the vessel of a potter, which cannot be made whole any more,––And, in Topheth, shall they bury, for want of place to bury. ¹² Thus, will I do to this place, Declareth Yahweh, And to the inhabitants thereof,––Even making this city like Topheth: ¹³ Yea, the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall, like the place of Topheth, be places defiled,––even all the houses, upon whose roofs they burned incense, to all the host of the heavens, and poured out drink–offerings to other, gods. ¹⁴ Then entered Jeremiah out of Topheth, whither Yahweh had sent him to prophesy,––and stood in the court of the house of Yahweh, and said unto all the people: ¹⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Behold me! brining in against this city, and upon all the cities thereof, The whole calamity, which I have pronounced against her,––Because they stiffened their neck, that they might not hear my words.

⁵ I, therefore, have appointed thee the years of their punishment, by the number of days, a hundred and ninety days,––so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

¹⁷ To groan, forbear, Over the dead––no mourning, shalt thou make, Thy chaplet, bind thou on thee, And, thy sandals, put thou on thy feet, And thou shalt not cover thy beard, And, the bread of [other] men, shalt thou not eat.

²³ And, your chaplets, shall be on your heads, And, your sandals, on your feet, Ye shall neither lament, nor weep,––Yet shall ye pine away in your iniquities, and shall groan, one to another.

⁸ For this cause, will I lament and howl, I will go stript and bare,––I will make a lamentation, like the wild dogs, and a mourning, like ostriches.

¹¹ Pass thou over (for you), thou inhabitress of Shaphir, of disgraceful disclosure,––the inhabitress of Zaanan, hath not gone forth, at the lamentation of Beth–ezel, shall he take from you his station,

⁴ Yea it shall come to pass, in that day, that the prophets, will turn pale, every man by reason of his vision when he prophesieth,––neither will they put on a mantle of hair to deceive.

⁴ But John, himself, had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins,––while, his food, was locusts and wild honey.

²⁴ Then, Jesus said unto his disciples––If any one intendeth, after me, to come, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and be following me;

⁷ That disciple, therefore, whom Jesus loved, saith unto Peter––It is, the Lord! Simon Peter, therefore, hearing that it was the Lord, girded about him, his upper garment,––for he was naked; and cast himself into the sea;

¹⁶ And the man in whom was the wicked spirit, springing upon them, mastering them both, prevailed against them, so that, naked and wounded, fled they out of that house.

³ And I will give unto my two witnesses, that they shall prophesy, a thousand two hundred and sixty days, arrayed in sackcloth.

³⁴ By the number of the days, wherein ye spied out the land––forty days, each day for a year, shall they bear your iniquities––forty years,––so shall ye know my opposition.

¹⁸ Lo! I, and the children whom Yahweh hath given, me, are for signs and for wonders, in Israel,––from Yahweh of hosts, who is making his habitation in Mount Zion.

¹ Ho! thou land of the buzzing of wings,––Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: ² That sendeth, by the sea, ambassadors, Even in vessels of paper–reed, upon the face of the waters,––Go, ye swift messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and polished, Unto a people terrible from their beginning and onwards,––A nation most mighty and subduing, Whose land rivers, have cut through. ³ All ye inhabitants of the world, And ye, that dwell in the earth,––When there is lifted up an ensign on the mountains, Ye shall look, And, when there is blown a horn, Ye shall hearken. ⁴ For, thus, said Yahweh unto me,––I must be quiet, I must look on in my fixed place of abode,––Like a bright heat, on the light, Like a cloud of dew, in the heat of harvest. ⁵ For, before harvest, when the bud is perfect, And, the blossom, becometh, a ripening grape, Then will one cut down the twigs with pruning–hooks, And, the tendrils, will he remove [and] cast down: ⁶ They shall be left together, To the, ravenous birds, of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth,––Then shall the ravenous bird, summer upon them, And, every beast of the earth, upon them, shall winter. ⁷ In that time, shall there be borne along,. As a present unto Yahweh of hosts, A people drawn out and polished, Even from a people terrible from their beginning and onwards,––A nation most mighty and subduing, Whose land rivers, have cut through, Unto the place of the Name of Yahweh of hosts. Mount Zion.

⁹ And he heard it reported concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, saying, He hath come forth to fight with thee,––so, when he heard it, he sent messengers unto Hezekiah, saying:

³ For, I––Yahweh, am, Thy God, The Holy One of Israel, Ready to save thee,––I have given, as thy ransom, Egypt, Ethiopia and Seba, in thy stead.

⁵ I, therefore, have appointed thee the years of their punishment, by the number of days, a hundred and ninety days,––so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. ⁶ And, when thou hast ended these, then shalt thou lie, on thy right side, a second, time, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah,––forty days, one day for each year, have I appointed thee.

² and, the court that is outside the Sanctuary, cast thou outside, and do not measure, it, because it hath been given unto the nations, and, the holy city, shall they tread under foot, forty and two months.
³ And I will give unto my two witnesses, that they shall prophesy, a thousand two hundred and sixty days, arrayed in sackcloth.

⁴ Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off half their beards, and cut off their upper garments in the middle, as far as their buttocks,––and let them go.

¹⁷ Therefore will My Lord, smite with leprosy, the crown of hair of the daughters of Zion,––And, as for Yahweh, their shame, will he lay bare!

⁴ And I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord,––And a fierce king shall rule over them, Declareth the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

³ Bared, shall be thy shame, Yea, seen, thy reproach,––An avenging, will I take, And will accept no son of earth.

²² But, if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore, have these things befallen, me? For the greatness of thine iniquity, have, Thy skirts, been turned aside, Thy heels, suffered violence!

²⁶ Therefore, even I myself, have drawn away thy skirts, over thy face, And thy shame, hath been seen.

²⁶ And I will deliver them––Into the hand of them who are seeking their life, Even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of his servants,––And, after that, shall it be inhabited as in the days of old, Declareth Yahweh.

¹⁸ And, in Tehaphnehes, hath the day become dark, Because I have broken, there, the yoke–bars of Egypt, And there shall be made to cease therein the pride of her strength,––She, a cloud, shall cover her! And, her daughters, into captivity, shall wend their way.

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy of me, gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich,––and white raiment, that thou mayest array thyself, and, the shame of thy nakedness, may not be made manifest,––and eye–salve, to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

²¹ Now, lo! thou dost trust thyself on the support of this bruised cane, on Egypt, whereon, if a man lean, it will enter his hand and lay it open,––so, is Pharaoh king of Egypt, to all who trust upon him.

²² Cease ye from the son of earth, In whose nostrils is but a breath,––For, wherein, to be reckoned, upon, is he?

³ Therefore shall, the protection of Pharaoh, become to you, a shame, And, the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, an insult;

⁵ Every one, hath felt ashamed of a people that could not serve them,––Neither with help, nor with service, But they are a shame, yea even a reproach.

⁷ But, the Egyptians, with vanity and emptiness, would help,––Therefore, have I proclaimed concerning this, Insolent! they, sit still!

⁶ Lo! thou dost trust on the support of this bruised cane, on Egypt, whereon, if a man lean, it will enter his hand, and lay it open,––So, is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who trust upon him.

²³ Thus, saith Yahweh, Let not, the wise man, glory, in his wisdom, Neither let, the mighty man, glory, in his might,––Let not, the rich man, glory, in his riches; ²⁴ But, in this, let the glorying one glory––In having intelligence, and in knowing, me, That, I, am Yahweh, Executing lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth,––That, in these things, I delight, Declareth Yahweh.

⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh, Accursed, is the man––Who trusteth in a son of earth, And hath made flesh, his arm,––And whose heart, from Yahweh, turneth aside:

⁶ So shall all the inhabitants of Egypt know, that, I, am Yahweh,––Because they were a staff of reed to the house of Israel: ⁷ Whensoever they took hold of thee by the hand, thou didst run through, and tear open for them every hand,––And, whensoever they leaned upon thee, thou didst break, and caused all their loins, to halt.

²¹ So then, let, no one, be boasting in men; for, all things, are yours––

²⁰ They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded.

³⁰ He shall deliver the innocent, and thou shalt escape by the pureness of thy hands.

³ What, then, will ye do for the day of visitation, And for the devastation which, from afar, shall come? Unto whom, will ye flee for help? And where, will ye leave your gory?

¹⁷ But I will make–Justice, the line, and, Righteousness, the plummet,––And the hail shall, sweep away, your refuge of lying, And, your hiding–place, the waters shall overflow;

¹ Alas! for sons who are rebellious, Declareth Yahweh. Executing a purpose, but not from me, And pouring out a libation, but not from my spirit,––That they may add sin to sin: ² Who are setting out to go down to Egypt, But, at my mouth, have not asked,––Betaking them to the protection of Pharaoh, And seeking refuge under the shadow of Egypt. ³ Therefore shall, the protection of Pharaoh, become to you, a shame, And, the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, an insult; ⁴ For, their princes, have been, in Zoan,––And, their messengers, unto Hanes, would draw near. ⁵ Every one, hath felt ashamed of a people that could not serve them,––Neither with help, nor with service, But they are a shame, yea even a reproach. ⁶ The Oracle on the Beasts of the South,––Through a land of distress and oppression––Lioness and lion coming therefrom, Viper and fiery flying serpent, They would carry, on the shoulders of young asses, their wealth, And, on the humps of camels, their treasures, Unto a people that cannot serve them. ⁷ But, the Egyptians, with vanity and emptiness, would help,––Therefore, have I proclaimed concerning this, Insolent! they, sit still!

¹⁵ For, thus, said my Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel––By returning and resting, shall ye be saved, In keeping quiet and trusting, shall be your strength,––Howbeit ye would not! ¹⁶ But ye said,––Nay! but on horses, will we flee, For this cause, shall ye indeed flee,––And, on the swift, will we ride, For this cause, swift, shall be your pursuers:

¹ Alas! for them who are going down to Egypt for help, On horses, would rely,––And have trusted––In chariots––because they are many, and, In horsemen, because they are very bold, But have not looked unto the Holy One of Israel, And, onto Yahweh, have not sought. ² But, he also, is wise, and hath brought in calamity, And, his own words, hath he not set aside,––Therefore will he rise up, Against the house of evil–doers, and, Against the help of the workers of iniquity. ³ Now, the Egyptians, are, men, and not, GOD, And, their horses, flesh, and not, spirit; When, Yahweh, shall stretch out his hand, Then, he that is giving help, shall stumble, And, he that is receiving help, shall fall, And, together, shall, all of them, vanish!

¹⁵ Why, shouldst thou make outcry over thine injury, Incurable, is thy pain? Because of the abounding of thine iniquity, [Because] numerous, have been thy sins, Have I done these things unto thee. ¹⁶ Therefore, all who devour thee, shall be devoured, And, all thine adversaries––all of them, into captivity, shall depart,––So shall, they who plundered thee, be plundered, And, all who preyed upon thee, will I deliver up as a prey. ¹⁷ For I will put a bandage upon thee, And, from thy wounds, will I heal thee, Declareth Yahweh,––Because, An outcast, they called thee, ‘Tis, Zion! who hath, none to ask for her welfare.

⁴ On account of the day that cometh to lay waste all the Philistines, To cut off from Tyre, and Zidon, every escaped one that could have helped,––For Yahweh, is laying waste, the Philistines, The remnant of the Coastland of Caphtor.

³³ Serpents! broods of vipers! how should ye flee from the judgment of gehenna?

³ As soon as they begin to say––Peace! and safety! then, suddenly, upon them, cometh destruction,––just as the birth–throe unto her that is with child,––and in nowise shall they escape.

³ how shall, we, escape, if, so great a salvation as this, we have neglected,––which, indeed, having received, a beginning, of being spoken through the Lord, by them who heard, unto us was confirmed,