The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea. This prophecy was proclaimed against Babylon (the Wilderness of the Sea). Although this nation was irrigated and prospered by the river Euphrates, it would be desolate. At that time, Babylon was under Assyrian rule, yet it struggled to rebuild itself. But with this prophecy, the Lord shows that the rebellion of the nation would be discovered and punished

For three years., Isaiah walked without his outer garments. That is he stripped off his clothes to dress like a slave or a mourner dressed in sackcloth. The prophet did this to proclaim that the Egyptians and the Ethiopians would be crushed and treated like poor prisoners of war when Assyria took them captive. The purpose was the warn Judah not to make an alliance with Egypt, but to have a Covenant only with the Most High, This is applicable to us too.

Many seek help from people who cannot help them because they themselves are also living in spirtitual bondage. Therefore, the Only One who can take them out of the situation they are in is God. Therefore, those who make a Covenant with him are overcomers.

The prophet goes to Egypt and declares the Divine sentence against its wicked ways Egypt’s collapse, through the Assyrian Empire, would be certain. Therefore the Most High made it clear that Judath should not make any alliances with the Egyptians.