Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass 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, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to 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 will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear.
Lamentations 5:13The young men grind at the mill;the boys stagger 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 →