Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.

New American Standard Bible

“Take the millstones and grind meal.
Remove your veil, strip off the skirt,
Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

King James Version

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

Holman Bible

Take millstones and grind meal;
remove your veil,
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
wade through the streams.

International Standard Version

Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.

A Conservative Version

Take the millstones, and grind meal. Remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

American Standard Version

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

Amplified


“Take millstones [as a female slave does] and grind meal;
Remove your veil, strip off the skirt,
Uncover the leg, cross the rivers [at the command of your captors].

Bible in Basic English

Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.

Darby Translation

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:

Julia Smith Translation

Take the two mill-stones and grind flour, and uncover thy veil; strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

King James 2000

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover your locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Take [the] pair of mill stones and grind flour! Uncover your veil, strip off [your] skirt, uncover [your] thigh, pass through [the] rivers!

Modern King James verseion

Take the millstones and grind meal. Push back your veil, draw up your skirt, uncover your leg, pass over the rivers.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou shalt bring forth the quern and grind meal, put down thy stomacher, make bare thy knees, and shalt wade through the water rivers.

NET Bible

Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!

New Heart English Bible

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

The Emphasized Bible

Take millstones, and grind meal, - Put back thy veil - tuck up thy train Bare the leg, wade through streams:

Webster

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

World English Bible

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

רחה 
Recheh 
Usage: 6

and grind
טחן 
Tachan 
Usage: 8

קמח 
Qemach 
Usage: 14

גּלה 
Galah 
גּלה 
Galah 
Usage: 188
Usage: 188

צמּה 
Tsammah 
Usage: 4

חשׂף 
Chasaph 
Usage: 11

the leg
שׁבל 
Shebel 
leg
Usage: 1

the thigh
שׁוק 
Showq 
Usage: 19

עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Babylon's Fall

1 Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, 'O tender and delicate one.' 2 Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods. 3 Revealed is thy nakedness, yea, seen is thy reproach, Vengeance I take, and I meet not a man.


Cross References

Matthew 24:41

two women shall be grinding in the mill, one is received, and one is left.

Exodus 11:5

and 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;

Judges 16:21

And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house.

Job 31:10

Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.

Isaiah 20:4

so doth the king of Asshur lead the captivity of Egypt, and the removal of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with seat uncovered -- the nakedness of Egypt;

Genesis 24:65

and she saith unto the servant, 'Who is this man who is walking in the field to meet us?' and the servant saith, 'It is my lord;' and she taketh the veil, and covereth herself.

Isaiah 3:17

The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,

Jeremiah 13:22

And when thou dost say in thy heart, 'Wherefore have these met me?' For the abundance of thine iniquity Have thy skirts been uncovered, Have thy heels suffered violence.

Jeremiah 13:26

I also have made bare thy skirts before thy face, And thy shame hath been seen.

Jeremiah 27:7

And served him have all the nations, and his son, and his son's son, till the coming in of the time of his land, also it; and done service for him have many nations and great kings.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

Ezekiel 16:37-39

Therefore, lo, I am assembling all thy lovers, To whom thou hast been sweet, And all whom thou hast loved, Besides all whom thou hast hated; And I have assembled them by thee round about, And have revealed thy nakedness to them, And they have seen all thy nakedness.

Hosea 2:3

Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as in the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.

Micah 1:11

Pass over for thee, O inhabitant of Shaphir, Naked one of shame. Not gone out hath the inhabitant of Zaanan, The lamentation of Beth-Ezel doth take from you its standing.

Nahum 3:5-6

Lo, I am against thee, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And have removed thy skirts before thy face, And have shewed nations thy nakedness, And kingdoms thy shame,

Luke 17:35

two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

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