Isaiah 47:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Take the millstone and grind flour, remove your veil; Strip off your skirt, bare your legs, cross through the streams.

Cross References

Genesis 24:65

She asked the servant, “Who is the man over there, walking through the fields toward us?” “That is my master,” replied the servant. Then she took her veil and covered herself.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun seized David’s servants and had them shaved and their garments cut off halfway at the hips. Then he sent them away.

Job 31:10

Then may my wife grind for another, and may others kneel over her!

Exodus 11:5

Every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave-girl who is at the handmill, as well as all the firstborn of the animals.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

When the doors to the street are shut, and the sound of the mill is low; When one rises at the call of a bird, and all the daughters of song are quiet;

Isaiah 20:4

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

Isaiah 3:17

The Lord shall cover the scalps of Zion’s daughters with scabs, and the Lord shall lay bare their heads.

Isaiah 3:23

the lace gowns, linen tunics, turbans, and shawls.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you who are so complacent! Shudder, you who are so confident! Strip yourselves bare, with only a loincloth for cover.

Jeremiah 13:22

If you say to yourself: “Why have these things happened to me?” For your great guilt your skirts are stripped away and you are violated.

Jeremiah 13:26

I now will strip away your skirts, so that your shame is visible.

Jeremiah 25:10

Among them I will put to an end the song of joy and the song of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstone and the light of the lamp.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time comes for him and his land; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men carry millstones, boys stagger under loads of wood;

Hosea 2:3

Say to your brothers, “My People,” and to your sisters, “Pitied.”

Micah 1:11

Pass by, you who dwell in Shaphir! The inhabitants of Zaanan do not come forth from their city. There is lamentation in Beth-ezel. It will withdraw its support from you.

Matthew 24:41

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

Luke 17:35

And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.”

1 Corinthians 11:5

But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled brings shame upon her head, for it is one and the same thing as if she had had her head shaved.

Judges 16:21

But the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. Then they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze fetters, and he was put to grinding grain in the prison.