Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.
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Exodus 11:5and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of livestock.
1 Chronicles 19:4So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.
Isaiah 3:17therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and the LORD will make their scalps bald.”
Isaiah 32:11Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
Jeremiah 13:26Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear.
Lamentations 5:13The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads 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 →