Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstone and grind flour; remove your veil, 1 strip off your flowing robe, uncover your legs, cross the streams. 1
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Exodus 11:5All the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill grinding it, and to all the firstborn of the cattle.
1 Chronicles 19:4So Hanun seized David's servants, shaved them, cut off their garments to the waist, up to their buttocks, and sent them away.
Isaiah 3:17Therefore the Lord will form scabs on the heads of the daughters of Zion, 1 and Yahweh will make them bald. 1
Isaiah 32:11Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you confident ones; 1 take off your fine clothes and make yourselves bare; put on sackcloth around your waists. 1
Jeremiah 13:26So also I myself will strip your skirts off you, and your private parts will be seen. 1
Lamentations 5:13Young men are forced to grind grain with a millstone, 1 and boys stagger under heavy loads of 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 →