Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade 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.
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.
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 down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a chair, Daughter of the Chaldeans! For no longer will they call you tender and attractive. 2 Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers. 3 Your nakedness will be exposed, and your disgrace will also be seen. I'll take vengeance, and I will spare no mortal.
Phrases
Cross References
Matthew 24:41
Two women will be grinding grain at the mill. One will be taken, and one will be left behind.
Exodus 11:5
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave girl who operatesthe hand mill, along with the firstborn of the animals.
Judges 16:21
Then the Philistines grabbed him, gouged out his eyes, brought him down to Gaza, tied him up in bronze chains, and made him grind grain in their prison.
Job 31:10
then let my wife cook for another person and may someone else sleep with her,
Isaiah 20:4
so the king of Assyria will lead away the Egyptian captives and exiles from Cush, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot with even their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt.
Genesis 24:65
and asked the servant, "Who is that man coming in the field to meet us?"
Isaiah 3:17
therefore the LORD will afflict sores on the heads of Zion's women, and the LORD will expose their private parts.
Isaiah 32:11
So tremble, you ladies of leisure! Shudder, you daughters who feel so complacent! Strip down and make yourselves naked down to the waist! Then wrap yourself in sackcloth and beat your breasts.
Jeremiah 13:22
When you say to yourselves, "Why have all these things happened to me?' It's because of the extent of your iniquity that your skirt has been lifted up, and your heels have suffered violence.
Jeremiah 13:26
I'll also pull your skirt up over your face, so your shame will be seen,
Jeremiah 27:7
All the nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until his country's time also comes, and then many nations and great kings will use him as a slave.
Lamentations 5:13
Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood.
Ezekiel 16:37-39
therefore, watch out! I'm about to gather all your lovers from whom you've received your pleasure, everyone whom you've loved, and those whom you've hated. I'll gather them together to oppose you from every side, and they'll uncover your nakedness in their presence. Then they'll see you completely naked.
Hosea 2:3
Otherwise, I'll strip her naked as she was on the day she was born make her like a wilderness, turn her into a parched land, and cause her to die of thirst.
Micah 1:11
Run away, you residents of Shaphir, displaying your shameful nakedness. Don't come out, you residents of Zaanan! Your firm standing will disappear as Beth-ezel mourns.
Nahum 3:5-6
"Look, I am against you," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "so I will pull up your dress over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations, and your disgrace to the kingdoms.
Luke 17:35
Two women will be grinding grain together. The one will be taken, and the other will be left behind."