Isaiah 47:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² Take the millstones, and grind meal: remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, 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 she said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master: and she took her veil, and covered herself.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

Job 31:10

Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

Exodus 11:5

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

and the door shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

Isaiah 20:4

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

Isaiah 3:17

therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.

Isaiah 3:23

the hand mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

Jeremiah 13:22

And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore are these things come upon me? for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels suffer violence.

Jeremiah 13:26

Therefore will I also discover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.

Jeremiah 25:10

Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

Jeremiah 27:7

And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

Lamentations 5:13

The young men bare the mill, and the children stumbled under the wood.

Hosea 2:3

lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst;

Micah 1:11

Pass ye away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the stay thereof.

Matthew 24:41

two women shall be grinding at the mill; one is taken, and one is left.

Luke 17:35

There shall be two women grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

1 Corinthians 11:5

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoureth her head: for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

Judges 16:21

And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.