Isaiah 47:2 “Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skir…”

Isaiah 47:2

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

World English Bible

Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.

American Standard Version

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

Geneva Bible 1599

Take the mill stones, and grinde meale: loose thy lockes: make bare the feete: vncouer the legge, and passe through the floods.

Darby Translation

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:

Young's Literal Translation

Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.

Bible in Basic English

Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.

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Cross references

“the millstones”

Exodus 11:5 Judges 16:21 Matthew 24:41 Job 31:10 Luke 17:35 Jeremiah 27:7

Exodus 11:5 · BSB

and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.

Judges 16:21 · BSB

Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

Matthew 24:41 · BSB

Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.

Job 31:10 · BSB

then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

Luke 17:35 · BSB

Two women will be grinding grain together: one will be taken and the other left.”

Jeremiah 27:7 · BSB

All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

“make bare”

Isaiah 20:4 Ezekiel 16:37–39 Hosea 2:3 Isaiah 3:17 Jeremiah 13:22 Jeremiah 13:26

Isaiah 20:4 · BSB

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

Ezekiel 16:37–39 · BSB

therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you co…

Hosea 2:3 · BSB

Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

Isaiah 3:17 · BSB

the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare. ”

Jeremiah 13:22 · BSB

And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

Jeremiah 13:26 · BSB

So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

Also

Isaiah 32:11 Genesis 24:65

Isaiah 32:11 · BSB

Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.

Genesis 24:65 · BSB

and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

3Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

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