Isaiah 47:2
Take a millstone and grind meal. Uncover your shame, bare your shoulder, reveal your legs, cross the streams.
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Exodus 11:5And every firstborn in the land of the Egyptians shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the handmaid, who is at the millstone, and all the firstborn of the beasts of burden.
1 Chronicles 19:4And so Hanun shaved the heads and beards of the servants of David, and he cut away their tunics from the buttocks to the feet, and he sent them away.
Isaiah 3:17the Lord will make the heads of the daughters of Zion bald, and the Lord will strip them of the locks of their hair.
Isaiah 32:11Be stupefied, you opulent women! Be disturbed, O confident ones! Strip yourselves, and be confounded; gird yourselves at the waist.
Jeremiah 13:26Therefore, I have even bared your thighs before your face, and your shame has been seen.
Lamentations 5:13They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in 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 →