11 Bible Verses about Grinding Food

then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her.

when those who keep watch over the house begin to tremble, and the virile men begin to stoop over, and the grinders begin to cease because they grow few, and those who look through the windows grow dim,

And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.

The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.

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

The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.

and the doors along the street are shut; when the sound of the grinding mill grows low, and one is awakened by the sound of a bird, and all their songs grow faint,

Wail, you who live in the market district, for all the merchants will disappear and those who count money will be removed.

There will be two women grinding grain with a mill; one will be taken and one left.

There will be two women grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left."

And the sound of the harpists, musicians, flute players, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again. No craftsman who practices any trade will ever be found in you again; the noise of a mill will never be heard in you again.