Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 But as for thee O daughter, thou virgin Babylon, thou shalt sit in the dust. Thou shalt sit upon the ground, and not in a throne, O thou maiden of Chaldea. Thou shalt no more be called tender and pleasant. 2 Thou shalt bring forth the quern and grind meal, put down thy stomacher, make bare thy knees, and shalt wade through the water rivers. 3 Thy shame shall be discovered, and thy privities shall be seen. For I will avenge me of thee, and will show no mercy to thee as I do to other men,
Phrases
Cross References
Matthew 24:41
two shall be grinding at the mill: the one shall be received, and the other shall be refused.
Exodus 11:5
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die: even from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth on his seat, unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is in the mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
Judges 16:21
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes; and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters. And he was made to grind in the prison house.
Job 31:10
O then let my wife be another man's harlot and let others lie with her.
Isaiah 20:4
For even thus shall the king of the Assyrians drive both young and old, as prisoners, naked and barefoot, out of Egypt and Ethiopia. And shall discover the shame of Egypt.
Genesis 24:65
and said unto the servant, "What man is this that cometh against us in the field?" And the servant said, "It is my master." And then she took her mantle, and put it about her.
Isaiah 3:17
Therefore shall the Lord shave the heads of the daughters of Zion, and discover their shame."
Isaiah 32:11
O ye rich idle cities, ye that fear no peril: ye shall be abashed and removed, when ye see the bareness, the nakedness, and preparing to war.
Jeremiah 13:22
And if thou wouldest say then in thine heart, 'Wherefore come these things upon me?' Even for the multitude of thy blasphemies, shall thy hinder parts and thy feet be uncovered.
Jeremiah 13:26
Therefore shall I turn thy clothes over thy head, and uncover thy thighs, that thy privates may be seen:
Jeremiah 27:7
And all people shall serve him, and his son, and his child's children, until the time of the same land be come also: Yea, many people and great kings shall serve him.
Lamentations 5:13
they have taken young men's lives from them, and the boys are hanged up upon trees.
Ezekiel 16:37-39
Behold therefore, I will gather together all thy lovers, unto whom thou hast made thy self common. Yea, and all them whom thou favourest, and euery one that thou hatest: and will uncover thy shame before them, that they all may see thy filthiness.
Hosea 2:3
If no, I shall strip her naked, and set her, even as she came into the world. Yea, I shall lay her waste, and make her like a wilderness, and slay her for thirst.
Micah 1:11
Thou that dwellest at Shaphir, get thee hence with shame. The proud shall boost no more for very sorrow. And why? Her neighbour shall take from her what she hath.
Nahum 3:5-6
Behold, I will upon thee, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, and will pull thy clothes over thy head: that I may show thy nakedness among the Heathen, and thy shame among the kingdoms.
Luke 17:35
Two shall be also a grinding together: the one shall be received, and the other forsaken."