Isaiah 47:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.”
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“Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 47:2 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 24:65and 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.
- Exodus 11:5and 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 16:21Then 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.
- 1 Chronicles 19:4So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.
- Job 31:10then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
- Isaiah 3:17the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
- Isaiah 20:4so 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.
- Isaiah 32:11Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
- Jeremiah 13:22And 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 13:26So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
- Jeremiah 27:7All 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.
- Lamentations 5:13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
- Ezekiel 16:37therefore 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 completely naked.
- Hosea 2:3Otherwise, 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.
- Micah 1:11Depart in shameful nakedness, O dwellers of Shaphir. The dwellers of Zaanan will not come out. Beth-ezel is in mourning; its support is taken from you.
- Nahum 3:5“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
- Matthew 24:41Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
- Luke 17:35Two women will be grinding grain together: one will be taken and the other left.”
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