Parallel Verses

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.

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:

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 upon the dust, thou virgin daughter of Babel, sit upon the earth: no throne, thou daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt not be added for them to call thee tender and delicate. 2 Take the two mill-stones and grind flour, and uncover thy veil; strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, also thy reproach shall be seen: I will take vengeance, I will not make peace with man.


Cross References

Matthew 24:41

Two grinding in the mill; one shall be taken, and one let go.

Exodus 11:5

And every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maid which is behind the two mill-stones; and every first-born of quadruped.

Judges 16:21

And Philisteim will seize him, and they will bore out his eyes, and will bring him down to Gaza and bind him with fetters of brass, and he will be grinding in the house of bonds.

Job 31:10

My wife shall grind for another, and others shall bow down upon her.

Isaiah 20:4

Thus shall the king of Assur lead the captivity of Egypt, and the exile of Cush, boys and old men naked and barefoot, and buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt

Genesis 24:65

And she will say to the servant, Who this man going in the field to meet us? And the servant will say, He is my lord: and she will take a covering and cover herself.

Isaiah 3:17

And Jehovah made bald the crown of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah opened the redundance.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, ye careless be disturbed, ye, confident: strip and be naked, gird upon the loins.

Jeremiah 13:22

And if thou shalt say in thy heart, Wherefore did these things befal me? for the multitude of thine iniquities thy skirts were uncovered, thy heel treated with violence.

Jeremiah 13:26

And also I uncovered thy skirts upon thy face and thy dishonor was seen.

Jeremiah 27:7

And all the nations served him, and his son, and his son's son, even till the time itself also of his land came: and many nations and great kings served upon him.

Lamentations 5:13

They took away the chosen ones to grind, and the young men were weak in the wood.

Ezekiel 16:37-39

For this, behold me gathering all those loving thee whom thou wert pleasant to them, and all whom thou lovedst, with all whom thou hatedst; and I gathered them against thee from round about, and I uncovered thy nakedness to them, and they saw all thy nakedness

Hosea 2:3

Lest I shall strip her naked, and I set her as the day of her birth, and I set her as a desert, and I set her as a land of dryness, and I slew her with thirst

Micah 1:11

Pass away for you, thou fair one inhabiting the nakedness of shame: she inhabiting the place of flocks shall not go forth to the wailing of the house of firm root; he shall take from you his standing.

Nahum 3:5-6

Behold me against thee, says Jehovah of armies; and I uncovered thy skirts upon thy face, and I caused nations to see thy nakedness, and kingdoms thy shame.

Luke 17:35

Two females shall be grinding together; one shall be taken, and the other let go.

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