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Isaiah 47:2

Judgment

1 “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

3 Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

4 Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name— is the Holy One of Israel.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
KJV
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
WEB
Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.
ASV
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
DARBY
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:
BLB
Take the millstones and grind flour! Uncover your veil [and] strip away [your] skirt; uncover [your] thigh; pass over the rivers!
ÅB
Ta fatt på kvernen og mal mel, slå opp ditt slør, løft slepet opp, gjør benet bart, vad over elver!
OTB
Ta kvernsteinene og mal mel; fjern sløret ditt, løft opp skjørtene dine, avdekk bena dine, og kryss elvene.
B1930
Ta fatt på kvernen og mal mel, slå op ditt slør, løft slepet op, gjør benet bart, vad over elver!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Judges 16:21

    Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

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  • Isaiah 20:4

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

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  • Exodus 11:5

    and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.

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  • Matthew 24:41

    Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.

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  • Genesis 24:65

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

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  • Hosea 2:3

    Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

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  • Nahum 3:5–6

    “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.

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  • Ezekiel 16:37–39

    therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.

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