Three years earlier the LORD had told Isaiah son of Amoz to take off his sandals and the sackcloth he was wearing. He obeyed and went around naked and barefoot.

When that time comes, no prophet will be proud of his visions or act like a prophet or wear a prophet's coarse garment in order to deceive people.

John's clothes were made of camel's hair; he wore a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

What did you go out to see? A man dressed up in fancy clothes? People who dress like that live in palaces!

He will go ahead of the Lord, strong and mighty like the prophet Elijah. He will bring fathers and children together again; he will turn disobedient people back to the way of thinking of the righteous; he will get the Lord's people ready for him."

I will send my two witnesses dressed in sackcloth, and they will proclaim God's message during those 1, 260 days."