Like as - That is, as Isaiah has gone stripped of his special garment as a prophet, so shall the Egyptians and Ethiopians be stripped of all…

For a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia. —Apparently Isaiah prophesied in act, but in silence, and did not unf…

Three years. Why for such a period? Because that was the time granted to the Egyptians and Ethiopians, during which the Lord gave them a t…

And the Lord said
Here follows the explanation of the sign, and the accommodation of it to the thing signified by it…

The invasion and conquest of Egypt and Ethiopia.

Isaiah was a sign to the people by his unusual dress when he walked about. He commonly wore…

1. In the year that. Here the time of the destruction is described, and it is divided into three parts:

   1. A proph…