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Isaiah 47:2

Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.

3The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy,

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Cross References

Exodus 11:5And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.

1 Chronicles 19:4So Hanun took David's servants, and cutting off their hair and the skirts of their robes up to the middle, sent them away.

Isaiah 3:17The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.

Isaiah 32:11Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.

Jeremiah 13:26So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.

Lamentations 5:13The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 47:2-7

Babylon Threatened. ( b. c. 708.) 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. 2 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… Read the whole commentary →

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