Isaiah 47:2
Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
3Revealed is thy nakedness, yea, seen is thy reproach, Vengeance I take, and I meet not a man.
Cross References
Exodus 11:5and every first-born in the land of Egypt hath died, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the maid-servant who [is] behind the millstones, and all the first-born of beasts;
1 Chronicles 19:4And Hanun taketh the servants of David, and shaveth them, and cutteth their long robes in the midst, unto the buttocks, and sendeth them away.
Isaiah 3:17The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth.
Isaiah 32:11Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,
Jeremiah 13:26I also have made bare thy skirts before thy face, And thy shame hath been seen.
Lamentations 5:13Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
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 →