Isaiah 47:2 Parallel Translations

Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil. Take off your skirt. Uncover your legs, and cross the river.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

ASV:

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

BBE:

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.

DBY:

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:

ERV:

Take the millstones, and grind meal: remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

JPS:

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

WBS:

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

WEB:

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

YLT:

Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.

Isaiah 47:2 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 24:65 She said to the servant, "Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?" And the servant said, "He is my master." Then she took her veil and covered herself.

Exodus 11:5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the millstones; all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

Job 31:10 May my wife grind for another, And let others kneel down over her.

Ecclesiastes 12:4 and the doors on the street are shut as the sound of the grinding mill is low, and one will arise at the sound of the bird, and all the daughters of song will sing softly.

Isaiah 3:23 hand mirrors, undergarments, turbans and veils.

Isaiah 32:11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent daughters; Strip, undress and put sackcloth on your waist,

Jeremiah 25:10 'Moreover, I will take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

Matthew 24:41 "Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left.

1 Corinthians 11:5 But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

47:2 Take the millstones, and {c} grind meal: uncover thy locks, {d} make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
(c) You will be brought to most vile servitude: for to turn the mill was the office of slaves.
(d) The things in which she sets her greatest pride, will be made vile, even from the head to the foot.

WES:

47:2 Millstones - Thou shalt be brought to the basest slavery, which grinding at the mill was esteemed. For this work was not performed by horses, as now it is, but by the labour of slaves and captives. Grind - Grind bread - corn into meal for thy master's use. Uncover - Take off the ornaments wherewith such women as were of good quality, used to cover and dress their heads. These are predictions of what they should be forced to do or suffer. Thigh - Gird up thy garments close and short about thee, that thou mayest be fit for travelling on foot, and for passing over those rivers, through which thou wilt be constrained to wade, in the way to the land of thy captivity.

MHC:

47:1-6 Babylon is represented under the emblem of a female in deep distress. She was to be degraded and endure sufferings; and is represented sitting on the ground, grinding at the handmill, the lowest and most laborious service. God was righteous in his vengeance, and none should interpose. The prophet exults in the Lord of hosts, as the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel. God often permits wicked men to prevail against his people; but those who cruelly oppress them will be punished.

CONC:

Bare Cross Crushed Crushing-stones Draw Floods Flour Grind Leg Legs Lift Locks Meal Millstones Pass Remove Rivers Robe Skirt Skirts Streams Strip Thigh Train Uncover Uncovered Veil Wade

Bare Cross Crushed Draw Flour Grind Leg Lift Meal Millstones Remove Rivers Robe Skirt Skirts Streams Strip Thigh Train Uncover Uncovered Veil Wade

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