Isaiah 47:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Genesis 24:65

And said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us through the field? And the servant said, It is my master: then she took her veil, covering her face with it.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun took David's servants, and cutting off their hair and the skirts of their robes up to the middle, sent them away.

Job 31:10

Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

Exodus 11:5

And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;

Isaiah 20:4

So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 3:17

The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.

Isaiah 3:23

The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils.

Isaiah 32:11

Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

Jeremiah 13:26

So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.

Jeremiah 25:10

And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.

Jeremiah 27:7

And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use.

Lamentations 5:13

The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

Hosea 2:3

For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

Micah 1:11

Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be crushing grain; one is taken, and one let go.

Luke 17:35

Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go.

1 Corinthians 11:5

But every woman who does so with her head unveiled, puts shame on her head: for it is the same as if her hair was cut off.

Judges 16:21

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.