Isaiah 47:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Take the millstones and grind meal; remove your veil; strip off your robe; uncover your legs; pass through the rivers.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Take the millstones [like the poorest female slave of the household does] and grind meal; take off your veil and uncover your hair. Remove your skirt, bare your leg, wade through the rivers [at the command of your captors].

American Standard Version (1901)

² Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

Common English Bible

² Take the millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your robe, expose your thighs, wade through the rivers!

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Take a millstone and grind meal. Uncover your shame, bare your shoulder, reveal your legs, cross the streams.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Take a millstone and grind meal. Uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.

Isaiah 47:2 Cross References

Genesis 24:65

and said to the servant, “Who is the man over there, walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun seized David’s servants, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at their waists, and sent them away,

Job 31:10

then let my wife grind for another, and let other men kneel over her.

Exodus 11:5

Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the handmill and all the firstborn of the livestock.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

Isaiah 20:4

so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as captives and the Cushites as exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 3:17

the Lord will afflict with scabs the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their scalps and heads.

Isaiah 3:23

the garments of gauze, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women who are at ease; shudder, you complacent ones; strip and make yourselves bare, and put sackcloth on your loins.

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you say in your heart, “Why have these things come upon me?” it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you are violated.

Jeremiah 13:26

I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.

Jeremiah 25:10

And I will banish from them the sound of mirth and the sound of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

Jeremiah 27:7

All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men are compelled to grind, and boys stagger under loads of wood.

Hosea 2:3

or I will strip her naked and expose her as in the day she was born and make her like a wilderness and turn her into a parched land and kill her with thirst.

Micah 1:11

Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come forth; Beth-ezel is wailing and shall remove its support from you.

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be grinding meal together; one will be taken, and one will be left.

Luke 17:35

There will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken and the other left.”

1 Corinthians 11:5

but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled shames her head—it is one and the same thing as having her head shaved.

Judges 16:21

So the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.