Isaiah 47:2
Go to work grinding flour with millstones. Remove your veil. Strip off your skirt, bare your legs, wade through rivers.
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Exodus 11:5Every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl working with a handmill, as well as all the firstborn of the cattle.
1 Chronicles 19:4So Hanun detained David's ambassadors and had them shaved, and their robes cut off at the buttocks. Then he sent them back.
Isaiah 3:17So the Lord will make their heads full of scabs, and the Lord will expose their private parts.
Isaiah 32:11Shudder, you women relaxing! Tremble, you ladies who feel so safe! Strip off your clothes, bare yourselves and put on sackcloth around your waists.
Jeremiah 13:26I will pull your skirts up over your face, so you will be seen naked and ashamed.
Lamentations 5:13Young men are forced to work at hand-mills; boys stagger under bundles of 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 →