Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Mill » Upper and lower stones of
“Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.
Verse Concepts
as hard as a lower millstone!
remove your veil,
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
wade through the streams.
Mills » Illustrative » (grinding at,) of degradation, &c
"Go down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter Chaldea! For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled. Take millstones and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off [your] skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams.
Mills » Used for grinding » Corn
remove your veil,
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
wade through the streams.
Shoes » Illustrative » (taken off,) of an ignominious and servile condition
and your throat from thirst.
But you say, “It’s hopeless;
I love strangers,
and I will continue to follow them.”
remove your veil,
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
wade through the streams.