Isaiah 47:2

New International Version

Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.

Cross References

Genesis 24:65

and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun seized David’s envoys, shaved them, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.

Job 31:10

then may my wife grind another man’s grain, and may other men sleep with her.

Exodus 11:5

Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;

Isaiah 20:4

so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared—to Egypt’s shame.

Isaiah 3:17

Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion; the Lord will make their scalps bald.”

Isaiah 3:23

and mirrors, and the linen garments and tiaras and shawls.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you complacent women; shudder, you daughters who feel secure! Strip off your fine clothes and wrap yourselves in rags.

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?”— it is because of your many sins that your skirts have been torn off and your body mistreated.

Jeremiah 13:26

I will pull up your skirts over your face that your shame may be seen—

Jeremiah 25:10

I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.

Jeremiah 27:7

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

Lamentations 5:13

Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Hosea 2:3

Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

Micah 1:11

Pass by naked and in shame, you who live in Shaphir. Those who live in Zaanan will not come out. Beth Ezel is in mourning; it no longer protects you.

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

Luke 17:35

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

1 Corinthians 11:5

But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is the same as having her head shaved.

Judges 16:21

Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.