- Isaiah was a sign to the people by his unusual dress, when he
walked abroad. He commonly wore sackcloth as a prophet, to show
himself mortified to the world. He was to loose this from his
loins; to wear no upper garments, and to go barefooted. This
sign was to signify, that the Egyptians and Ethiopians should be
led away captives by the king of Assyria, thus stripped. The
world will often deem believers foolish, when singular in
obedience to God. But the Lord will support his servants under
the most trying effects of their obedience; and what they are
called upon to suffer for his sake, commonly is light, compared
with what numbers groan under from year to year from sin. Those
who make any creature their expectation and glory, and so put it
in the place of God, will, sooner or later, be ashamed of it.
But disappointment in creature-confidences, instead of driving
us to despair, should drive us to God, and our expectation shall
not be in vain. The same lesson is in force now; and where shall
we look for aid in the hour of necessity, but to the Lord our
Righteousness?
he invasion and conquest of Egypt and Ethiopia.