Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
Remove your
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
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].
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.
Themes
Mill » Upper and lower stones of
Mills » Illustrative » (grinding at,) of degradation, &c
Mills » Used for grinding » Corn
Shoes » Illustrative » (taken off,) of an ignominious and servile condition
Interlinear
Laqach
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 47:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Babylon's Fall
1 Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate. 2 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. 3 The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy,
Phrases
Cross References
Matthew 24:41
Two women will be crushing grain; one is taken, and one let go.
Exodus 11:5
And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.
Judges 16:21
So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.
Job 31:10
Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.
Isaiah 20:4
So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Genesis 24:65
And said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us through the field? And the servant said, It is my master: then she took her veil, covering her face with it.
Isaiah 3:17
The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.
Isaiah 32:11
Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.
Jeremiah 13:22
And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.
Jeremiah 13:26
So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.
Jeremiah 27:7
And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use.
Lamentations 5:13
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
Ezekiel 16:37-39
For this cause I will get together all your lovers with whom you have taken your pleasure, and all those to whom you have given your love, with all those who were hated by you; I will even make them come together against you on every side, and I will have you uncovered before them so that they may see your shame.
Hosea 2:3
For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
Micah 1:11
Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.
Nahum 3:5-6
See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame.
Luke 17:35
Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go.