Isaiah 47:2

New Century Version

You must use large stones to grind grain into flour. Remove your veil and your nice skirts. Uncover your legs and cross the rivers.

Cross References

Genesis 24:65

and asked the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant answered, “That is my master.” So Rebekah covered her face with her veil.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun arrested David’s officers. To shame them he shaved their beards and cut off their clothes at the hips. Then he sent them away.

Job 31:10

then let my wife grind another man’s grain, and let other men have sexual relations with her.

Exodus 11:5

Every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die—from the firstborn son of the king, who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl grinding grain. Also the firstborn farm animals will die.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

Your ears will be deaf to the noise in the streets, and you will barely hear the millstone grinding grain. You’ll wake up when a bird starts singing, but you will barely hear singing.

Isaiah 20:4

The king of Assyria will carry away prisoners from Egypt and Cush. Old people and young people will be led away naked and barefoot, with their buttocks bare. So the Egyptians will be shamed.

Isaiah 3:17

So the Lord will put sores on the heads of those women in Jerusalem, and he will make them lose their hair.

Isaiah 3:23

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

Isaiah 32:11

Women, you are calm now, but you should shake with fear. Women, you feel safe now, but you should tremble. Take off your nice clothes and put rough cloth around your waist to show your sadness.

Jeremiah 13:22

You might ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It happened because of your many sins. Because of your sins, your skirt was torn off and your body has been treated badly.

Jeremiah 13:26

I will pull your skirts up over your face so everyone will see your shame.

Jeremiah 25:10

I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and happiness, the sounds of brides and bridegrooms, and the sound of people grinding meal. And I will take away the light of the lamp.

Jeremiah 27:7

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

Lamentations 5:13

The young men ground grain at the mill, and boys stumbled under loads of wood.

Hosea 2:3

If she refuses, I will strip her naked and leave her bare like the day she was born. I will make her dry like a desert, like a land without water, and I will kill her with thirst.

Micah 1:11

Pass on your way, naked and ashamed, you who live in Shaphir. Those who live in Zaanan won’t come out. The people in Beth Ezel will cry, but they will not give you any support.

Matthew 24:41

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

Luke 17:35

There will be two women grinding grain together; 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 brings shame to her head. She is the same as a woman who has her head shaved.

Judges 16:21

Then the Philistines captured Samson and tore out his eyes. They took him down to Gaza, where they put bronze chains on him and made him grind grain in the prison.