Parallel Verses
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].
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, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground, without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no longer be called tender and delicate.
2
Remove your
Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
Phrases
Cross References
Matthew 24:41
Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken and the other left.
Exodus 11:5
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill and all the firstborn of beasts.
Judges 16:21
But the Philistines took hold of him and put out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of iron that he should grind in the prison house.
Job 31:10
then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
Isaiah 20:4
so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Genesis 24:65
For she had asked the slave, What man is this that walks in the field to meet us? And the slave had said, This is my master; therefore she took a veil and covered herself.
Isaiah 3:17
Therefore the Lord will make bare the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will uncover that which they are ashamed of.
Isaiah 32:11
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Jeremiah 13:22
When thou shalt say in thine heart, Why do these things come upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered and thy heels made bare.
Jeremiah 13:26
Therefore I uncovered thy skirts before thy face, and thy shame was manifested.
Jeremiah 27:7
And all the Gentiles shall serve him and his son and his son's son, until the time of his own land shall come also; and many nations and great kings shall serve him.
Lamentations 5:13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Ezekiel 16:37-39
therefore, behold that I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure and all those that thou hast loved, with all those that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee and will uncover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
Hosea 2:3
lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land and slay her with thirst.
Micah 1:11
Pass away naked with shame, thou inhabitant of Saphir: the inhabitant of Zaanan did not come forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you for his lateness.
Nahum 3:5-6
Here I am against thee, saith the LORD of the hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the Gentiles thy nakedness and the kingdoms thy shame.
Luke 17:35
Two women shall be grinding together: the one shall be taken, and the other left.