Isaiah 47:2

Modern English Version

Take the millstones and grind meal. Uncover your veil, strip off the skirt, uncover the leg, pass over the rivers.

Cross References

Genesis 24:65

and said to the servant, “Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” Therefore she took a veil and covered herself.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun took the servants of David, shaved them, cut their garments in half as far as the hip, and sent them away.

Job 31:10

then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down over her.

Exodus 11:5

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill, as well as all the firstborn of beasts.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

and the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of grinding teeth is less; and awakened, one gets up at the sound of a bird, and the melodious songs are faint from diminished hearing;

Isaiah 20:4

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

Isaiah 3:17

therefore, the Lord will strike with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will make their foreheads bare.

Isaiah 3:23

hand mirrors, and undergarments, hoods, and veils.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless daughters; strip, undress, and put sackcloth on your waist.

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you say in your heart, “Why have these things come upon me?” for the greatness of your iniquity your skirts have been removed and your heels made bare.

Jeremiah 13:26

Therefore I Myself have uncovered your skirts over your face so that your shame may appear.

Jeremiah 25:10

Moreover I will take from them the voice of laughter 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

All nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son until the time of his own land comes; and then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men ground at the millstones; boys staggered under loads of wood.

Hosea 2:3

lest I strip her naked and leave her as in the day that she was born, and turn her into a wilderness, and turn her into a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

Micah 1:11

Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, naked and ashamed; the inhabitants of Zaanan have not come out. The mourning of Beth Ezel has taken from you its foothold.

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and the other left.

Luke 17:35

Two women will be grinding grain together; the one will be taken and the other will be left.

1 Corinthians 11:5

but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is the same as if she were shaved.

Judges 16:21

The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They took him down to Gaza, bound him with bronze chains, and he ground grain in prison.