the Lord will put scabs on the heads
of the daughters of Zion,
and the Lord will shave their foreheads bare.

so the king of Assyria will lead the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.

Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

The earth will be stripped completely bare
and will be totally plundered,
for the Lord has spoken this message.

Shudder, you complacent ones;
tremble, you overconfident ones!
Strip yourselves bare
and put sackcloth around your waists.

Take millstones and grind meal;
remove your veil,
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
wade through the streams.