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title: "Isaiah 20 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "The ignominious captivity of the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians. Isaiah 20 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Isaiah 20

Isaiah 20 is chapter 20 of 66 in the Book of Isaiah. Here are all 6 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The ignominious captivity of the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Isaiah 20 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. In the year in which Tharthan entered into Ashdod, when Sargon, the king of the Assyrians, had sent him, and when he had fought against Ashdod and had captured it,
2. in that same time, the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying: “Go forth, and remove the sackcloth from your waist, and take your shoes from your feet.” And he did so, going out naked and barefoot.
3. And the Lord said: Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot, as a sign and as a portent of three years over Egypt and over Ethiopia,
4. so also will the king of the Assyrians force the captivity of Egypt, and the transmigration of Ethiopia: young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
5. And they will be afraid and confounded over Ethiopia, their hope, and Egypt, their glory.
6. And in that day, the inhabitants of a certain island will say: “Behold, this was our hope, we fled to them for help, to free us from the face of the king of the Assyrians. And now, how will we be able to escape?”

## Isaiah 20 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In anno quo ingressus est Thathan in Azotum, cum misisset eum Sargon, rex Assyriorum, et pugnasset contra Azotum, et cepisset eam:
2. in tempore illo locutus est Dominus in manu Isaiæ, filii Amos, dicens: Vade, et solve saccum de lumbis tuis, et calceamenta tua tolle de pedibus tuis. Et fecit sic, vadens nudus et discalceatus.
3. Et dixit Dominus: Sicut ambulavit servus meus Isaias nudus et discalceatus, trium annorum signum et portentum erit super Ægyptum et super Æthiopiam;
4. sic minabit rex Assyriorum captivitatem Ægypti, et transmigrationem Æthiopiæ, juvenum et senum, nudam et discalceatam, discoopertis natibus, ad ignominiam Ægypti.
5. Et timebunt, et confundentur ab Æthiopia spe sua, et ab Ægypto gloria sua.
6. Et dicet habitator insulæ hujus in die illa: Ecce hæc erat spes nostra, ad quos confugimus in auxilium, ut liberarent nos a facie regis Assyriorum: et quomodo effugere poterimus nos?

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).