Parallel Verses

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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 in the dust,
O virgin daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate.
2 “Take the millstones and grind meal.
Remove your veil, strip off the skirt,
Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
3 “Your nakedness will be uncovered,
Your shame also will be exposed;
I will take vengeance and will not spare a man.”


Cross References

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left.

Exodus 11:5

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the millstones; all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

Judges 16:21

Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze chains, and he was a grinder in the prison.

Job 31:10

May my wife grind for another,
And let others kneel down over her.

Isaiah 20:4

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Genesis 24:65

She said to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?” And the servant said, “He is my master.” Then she took her veil and covered herself.

Isaiah 3:17

Therefore the Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs,
And the Lord will make their foreheads bare.”

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women who are at ease;
Be troubled, you complacent daughters;
Strip, undress and put sackcloth on your waist,

Jeremiah 13:22

“If you say in your heart,
Why have these things happened to me?’
Because of the magnitude of your iniquity
Your skirts have been removed
And your heels have been exposed.

Jeremiah 13:26

“So I Myself have also stripped your skirts off over your face,
That your shame may be seen.

Jeremiah 27:7

All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men worked at the grinding mill,
And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

Ezekiel 16:37-39

therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.

Hosea 2:3

Or I will strip her naked
And expose her as on the day when she was born.
I will also make her like a wilderness,
Make her like desert land
And slay her with thirst.

Micah 1:11

Go on your way, inhabitant of Shaphir, in shameful nakedness.
The inhabitant of Zaanan does not escape.
The lamentation of Beth-ezel: “He will take from you its support.”

Nahum 3:5-6

“Behold, I am against you,” declares the Lord of hosts;
“And I will lift up your skirts over your face,
And show to the nations your nakedness
And to the kingdoms your disgrace.

Luke 17:35

There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.

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