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CHAPTER 20
Assyria shall overrun Egypt and make her ashamed. |
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1 IN the ayear
that bTartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of
Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking anaked and barefoot. 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a asign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; |
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4 So shall the aking of Assyria lead
away the Egyptians prisoners, and the bEthiopians captives,
young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered,
to the shame of Egypt.
5 And athey shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitant of this islea shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? |
6a the inhabitant of this isle When one pauses to think that the Americas, or atleast South American, was refered to by Jacob as that they were upon an isle of the seas, let them not scoff; for here is not the whole of Africa referenced as being but an 'isle'? For Africa, like South America stands with seas all about her and it was so known, the ships of King Solomon having sailed from Zidon to Elath which is Ezion Geber (Etzyon Gever) round about Africa the land of Egypt and Ethiopia, by the various seas surrounding thus knowing it to be a land surrounded by salt sea or ocean and but an isle. Africa is surrounded by water, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. And so it is with South America with Oceans and seas surrounding it, the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean. Thus Jacob seems to have known and understood this also, that he did state that they then dwelt upon an isle of the sea (2 Nephi 10:20). Now though we today consider both Africa and South America to be continents, to the concept of Biblical, scriptural, perspective, both Africa and South America are but 'isles' surrounded by sea connected only by a narrow passage to the land northward. | |