Isaiah 47:2

The Passion Translation

Take off your pretty veil; take two millstones and grind grain. Lift your skirt, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.

Cross References

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be grinding grain; one will be taken away in judgment, the other left.

Isaiah 20:4

so will the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and Cush, both young and old. They will be stripped and barefoot, with buttocks bared, to publicly humiliate Egypt.

Judges 16:21

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

Luke 17:35

There will be two women working together at household duties; one will be suddenly swept away while the other will be left alive.”

Lamentations 5:13

Young men are forced into menial labor, boys stagger under loads of wood.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson —until the time of the fall of his own kingdom comes, when other nations and great kings will make him their servant.

Jeremiah 13:26

I, in turn, will lift your skirts over your face, and everyone will see your nakedness.

Jeremiah 13:22

And when you ask yourself, “Why are these things happening to me?”— it is because your sin was so enormous that your skirts are lifted up and your private parts exposed.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you careless ones. Take off your fine garments and expose yourselves. Shake with fear and put on sackcloth.

Isaiah 3:17

So the Lord will afflict the foreheads of the daughters of Zion with scabs; Yahweh will make the front of their heads bald in that day.”

Genesis 24:65

She whispered to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field toward us?” “Why, he’s the one about whom I told you, that’s my young master!” the servant said. So Rebekah quickly took her veil and covered her face.

1 Corinthians 11:5

And if any woman in a place of leadership within the church prays or prophesies in public with her long hair disheveled, she shows disrespect to her head, which is her husband, for this would be the same as having her head shaved.

Isaiah 3:23

hand mirrors, fine linen garments interwoven with gold and purple, turbans, and long veils.

Jeremiah 25:10

Moreover, I will banish the voices of celebration and laughter from them and the sweet voices of the groom and his bride. I will silence the noise of grinding grain in the morning, and in the evening, lamps will no longer burn in their homes.