Isaiah 47:2

New Living Translation

Take heavy millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view.

Cross References

Genesis 24:65

“Who is that man walking through the fields to meet us?” she asked the servant. And he replied, “It is my master.” So Rebekah covered her face with her veil.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun seized David’s ambassadors and shaved them, cut off their robes at the buttocks, and sent them back to David in shame.

Job 31:10

then let my wife serve another man; let other men sleep with her.

Exodus 11:5

All the firstborn sons will die in every family in Egypt, from the oldest son of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the oldest son of his lowliest servant girl who grinds the flour. Even the firstborn of all the livestock will die.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

Remember him before the door to life’s opportunities is closed and the sound of work fades. Now you rise at the first chirping of the birds, but then all their sounds will grow faint.

Isaiah 20:4

For the king of Assyria will take away the Egyptians and Ethiopians as prisoners. He will make them walk naked and barefoot, both young and old, their buttocks bared, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 3:17

So the Lord will send scabs on her head; the Lord will make beautiful Zion bald.”

Isaiah 3:23

mirrors, fine linen garments, head ornaments, and shawls.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women of ease; throw off your complacency. Strip off your pretty clothes, and put on burlap to show your grief.

Jeremiah 13:22

You may ask yourself, “Why is all this happening to me?” It is because of your many sins! That is why you have been stripped and raped by invading armies.

Jeremiah 13:26

I myself will strip you and expose you to shame.

Jeremiah 25:10

I will take away your happy singing and laughter. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard. Your millstones will fall silent, and the lights in your homes will go out.

Jeremiah 27:7

All the nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until his time is up. Then many nations and great kings will conquer and rule over Babylon.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.

Hosea 2:3

Otherwise, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will leave her to die of thirst, as in a dry and barren wilderness.

Micah 1:11

You people in Shaphir, go as captives into exile—naked and ashamed. The people of Zaanan dare not come outside their walls. The people of Beth-ezel mourn, for their house has no support.

Matthew 24:41

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

Luke 17:35

Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, the other left.”

1 Corinthians 11:5

But a woman dishonors her head if she prays or prophesies without a covering on her head, for this is the same as shaving her head.

Judges 16:21

So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and forced to grind grain in the prison.