Isaiah 47:2

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Get the millstones ready and grind the grain into flour. Take off your veil and fancy clothes. Lift your skirt and get ready to cross the rivers.

Cross References

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be grinding grain with a mill. One will be taken and the other will be left.

Isaiah 20:4

The king of Assyria will defeat Egypt and Ethiopia. Assyria will take prisoners and lead them away from their countries. The people, young and old, will be led away without clothes or sandals. They will be completely naked.

Judges 16:21

The Philistine men captured Samson. They tore out his eyes and took him down to the city of Gaza. Then they put chains on him to keep him from running away. They put him in prison and made him work grinding grain.

Exodus 11:5

and every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt, to the firstborn son of the slave girl grinding grain. Even the firstborn animals will die.

Luke 17:35

There may be two women working together. One will be taken and the other will be left.”

Job 31:10

then let my wife serve someone else, and let other men sleep with her.

Micah 1:11

You people living in Shaphir, pass on your way, naked and ashamed. The people living in Zaanan will not come out. The people in Beth Ezel will cry and take their support from you.

Hosea 2:3

If she refuses to stop her adultery, I will strip her naked and leave her like the day she was born. I will take away her people, and she will be like an empty, dry desert. I will kill her with thirst.

Lamentations 5:13

The enemy made our young men grind grain at the mill. Our young men stumbled under loads of wood.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations will serve Nebuchadnezzar and his son and his grandson. Then the time will come for Babylon to be defeated. Many nations and great kings will make Babylon their servant.

Jeremiah 13:26

Jerusalem, I will pull your skirt up over your face. Everyone will see you, and you will be ashamed.

Jeremiah 13:22

You might ask yourself, “Why has this bad thing happened to me?” It happened because of your many sins. Because of your sins, your skirt was torn off, and your sandals were taken away. They did this to embarrass you.

Isaiah 32:11

Women, you are calm now, but you should be afraid. You feel safe now, but you should be worried. Take off your nice clothes and put on sackcloth. Wrap it around your waist.

Isaiah 3:17

The Lord will put sores on the heads of those women in Zion. The Lord will make their heads bald.

Genesis 24:65

She said to the servant, “Who is that young man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “That is my master’s son.” So Rebekah covered her face with her veil.

1 Corinthians 11:5

But every woman who prays or prophesies should have her head covered. If her head is not covered, she brings shame to her head. Then she is the same as a woman who has her head shaved.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

You will become hard of hearing. You will not hear the noise in the streets. Even the stone grinding your grain will seem quiet to you. You will not be able to hear the women singing. But even the sound of a bird singing will wake you early in the morning because you will not be able to sleep.

Isaiah 3:23

the mirrors, linen dresses, turbans, and long shawls.

Jeremiah 25:10

I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and happiness in those places. There will be no more happy sounds of the brides and bridegrooms. I will take away the sound of people grinding meal. I will take away the light of the lamp.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun arrested David’s servants and cut off their beards. Hanun also cut their clothes off at the hip and sent them away.