19:25. Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel is my inheritance. Isaias Chapter 20 The ignominious captivity of the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians. 20:1. In the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when Sargon the king of the Assyrians had sent him, and he had fought against Azotus, and had taken it: 20:2. At that same time the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaias the son of Amos, saying Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take off thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so, and went naked, and barefoot. 20:3. And the Lord said: As my servant Isaias hath walked, naked and barefoot, it shall be a sign and a wonder of three years upon Egypt, and upon Ethiopia, 20:4. So shall the king of the Assyrians lead away the prisoners of Egypt, and the captivity of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt. 20:5. And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory. 20:6. And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day: Lo this was our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver us from the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape? Isaias Chapter 21 The destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians: a prophecy against the Edomites and the Arabians. 21:1. The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land. The desert of the sea. . .So Babylon is here called, because from a city as full of people as the sea is with water, it was become a desert. 21:2. A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease. O Elam. . .That is, O Persia. 21:3. Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it. 21:4. My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me. 21:5. Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield. 21:6. For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell. 21:7. And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed. A rider upon an ass, etc. . .These two riders are the kings of the Persians and Medes. 21:8. And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights. And a lion cried out. . .That is, I Isaias seeing the approaching ruin of Babylon, have cried out as a lion roaring.