Isaiah 47:2
Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Exodus 11:5And every firstborn in the land of the Egyptians shall die, from the firstborn of Pharao who sitteth on his throne, even to the first born of the handmaid that is at the mill, and all the firstborn of beasts.
1 Chronicles 19:4Wherefore Hanon shaved the heads and beards of the servants of David, and cut away their garments from the buttocks to the feet, and sent them away.
Isaiah 3:17The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair.
Isaiah 32:11Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones: strip yen, and be confounded, gird your loins.
Jeremiah 13:26Wherefore I have also bared my thighs against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared.
Lamentations 5:13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell 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 →