Isaiah 47:2

Good News Translation

Turn the millstone! Grind the flour! Off with your veil! Strip off your fine clothes! Lift up your skirts to cross the streams!

Cross References

Genesis 24:65

and asked Abraham's servant, “Who is that man walking toward us in the field?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her scarf and covered her face.

1 Chronicles 19:4

Hanun seized David's messengers, shaved off their beards, cut off their clothes at the hips, and sent them away.

Job 31:10

then let my wife cook another man's food and sleep in another man's bed.

Exodus 11:5

and every first-born son in Egypt will die, from the king's son, who is heir to the throne, to the son of the slave woman who grinds grain. The first-born of all the cattle will die also.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

Your ears will be deaf to the noise of the street. You will barely be able to hear the mill as it grinds or music as it plays, but even the song of a bird will wake you from sleep.

Isaiah 20:4

The emperor of Assyria will lead away naked the prisoners he captures from those two countries. Young and old, they will walk barefoot and naked, with their buttocks exposed, bringing shame on Egypt.

Isaiah 3:17

But I will punish them—I will shave their heads and leave them bald.”

Isaiah 3:23

their revealing garments, their linen handkerchiefs, and the scarves and long veils they wear on their heads.

Isaiah 32:11

You have been living an easy life, free from worries; but now, tremble with fear! Strip off your clothes and tie rags around your waist.

Jeremiah 13:22

If you ask why all this has happened to you—why your clothes have been torn off and you have been raped—it is because your sin is so terrible.

Jeremiah 13:26

The Lord himself will strip off your clothes and expose you to shame.

Jeremiah 25:10

I will silence their shouts of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. They will have no oil for their lamps, and there will be no more grain.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations will serve him, and they will serve his son and his grandson until the time comes for his own nation to fall. Then his nation will serve powerful nations and great kings.

Lamentations 5:13

Our young men are forced to grind grain like slaves; boys go staggering under heavy loads of wood.

Hosea 2:3

If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst.

Micah 1:11

You people of Shaphir, go into exile, naked and ashamed. Those who live in Zaanan do not dare to come out of their city. When you hear the people of Bethezel mourn, you will know that there is no refuge there.

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be at a mill grinding meal: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind.

Luke 17:35

Two women will be grinding meal together: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind.”

1 Corinthians 11:5

And any woman who prays or proclaims God's message in public worship with nothing on her head disgraces her husband; there is no difference between her and a woman whose head has been shaved.

Judges 16:21

The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with bronze chains, and put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.