Immerse: Prophets - Flipbook - Page 101
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Egypt. When the people cry to the Lord for help against those who op
press them, he will send them a savior who will rescue them. The Lord
will make himself known to the Egyptians. Yes, they will know the Lord
and will give their sacrifices and offerings to him. They will make a vow to
the Lord and will keep it. The Lord will strike Egypt, and then he will
bring healing. For the Egyptians will turn to the Lord, and he will listen
to their pleas and heal them.
In that day Egypt and Assyria will be connected by a highway. The Egyp
tians and Assyrians will move freely between their lands, and they will
both worship God. In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt
and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth. For the Lord of Heaven’s
Armies will say, “Blessed be Egypt, my people. Blessed be Assyria, the land
I have made. Blessed be Israel, my special possession!”
In the year when King Sargon of Assyria sent his commander in chief to
capture the Philistine city of Ashdod, the Lord told Isaiah son of Amoz,
“Take off the burlap you have been wearing, and remove your sandals.”
Isaiah did as he was told and walked around naked and barefoot.
Then the Lord said, “My servant Isaiah has been walking around naked
and barefoot for the last three years. This is a sign—a symbol of the ter
rible troubles I will bring upon Egypt and Ethiop ia. For the king of Assyria
will take away the Egyptians and Ethiopians as prisoners. He will make
them walk naked and barefoot, both young and old, their buttocks bared,
to the shame of Egypt. Then the Philistines will be thrown into panic, for
they counted on the power of Ethiop ia and boasted of their allies in Egypt!
They will say, ‘If this can happen to Egypt, what chance do we have? We
were counting on Egypt to protect us from the king of Assyria.’”
This message came to me concerning Babylon—the desert by the sea:
Disaster is roaring down on you from the desert,
like a whirlwind sweeping in from the Negev.
I see a terrifying vision:
I see the betrayer betraying,
the destroyer destroying.
Go ahead, you Elamites and Medes,
attack and lay siege.
I will make an end
