Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones, and grind meal; 1 uncover thy tzammah (hair, tresses), lift up thy shohvel (train, skirt), 1 bare the thigh, pass over the neharot. 1
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Exodus 11:5And all the bechor in Eretz Mitzrayim shall die, from the bechor Pharaoh that sitteth upon his kisse, even unto the bechor hashifchah that is behind the millstone; and all the bechor behemah.
1 Chronicles 19:4Therefore Chanun arrested Dovidʼs avadim, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks, and sent them away.
Isaiah 3:17Therefore Adonoi will strike with a scab 1 the kodkod (top of the head) Banot Tziyon, 1 and Hashem will lay bare their nakedness.
Isaiah 32:11Tremble, ye nashim that are complacently at ease; 1 shake, ye complacent ones; 1 strip you, and make you bare, 1 and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 1
Jeremiah 13:26Therefore will I uncover thy skirts over thy panim, 1 that thy shame may appear. 1
Lamentations 5:13They took the bochurim to grind, 1 and the ne'arim staggered under the wood. 1
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 →