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Isaiah 47:2

Judgment

1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, 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

    But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

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  • Isaiah 20:4

    So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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  • Exodus 11:5

    And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

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  • Matthew 24:41

    Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

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  • Genesis 24:65

    For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.

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  • Hosea 2:3

    Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

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  • Nahum 3:5–6

    Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

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  • Ezekiel 16:37–39

    Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

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