Isaiah 47:2
Take a millstone and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your train, uncover your legs, and cross the rivers.
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Other Translations
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
KJV1611 – Modern English
Take the millstones and grind meal; uncover your hair, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
Take{H3947} the millstones,{H7347} and grind{H2912} meal;{H7058} remove{H1540} thy veil,{H6777} strip{H2834} off the train,{H7640} uncover{H1540} the leg,{H7785} pass through{H5674} the rivers.{H5104}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Take{H3947}{(H8798)} the millstones{H7347}, and grind{H2912}{(H8798)} meal{H7058}: uncover{H1540}{(H8761)} thy locks{H6777}, make bare{H2834}{(H8798)} the leg{H7640}, uncover{H1540}{(H8761)} the thigh{H7785}, pass over{H5674}{(H8798)} the rivers{H5104}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt bringe forth the querne, & grynede meel, put downe thy stomacher, make bare thy knees, and shalt wade thorow the water ryuers.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Take the mill stones, and grinde meale: loose thy lockes: make bare the feete: vncouer the legge, and passe through the floods.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Bryng foorth the querne and grinde meale, vntrusse thy broydred heere, put of thy shoes, make bare thy knees, and wade thorowe the water riuers.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Webster's Bible (1833)
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
American Standard Version (1901)
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
American Standard Version (1901)
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
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.
World English Bible (2000)
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!
Referenced Verses
- Matt 24:41 : 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
- Exod 11:5 : 5 Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the millstones, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
- Judg 16:21 : 21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.
- Job 31:10 : 10 then may my wife grind grain for another, and may others kneel over her.
- Isa 20:4 : 4 'so will the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush—young and old—naked and barefoot, with their buttocks exposed, bringing shame to Egypt.'
- Isa 32:11 : 11 Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you who feel secure! Strip yourselves bare and put on sackcloth around your waists.
- Jer 13:22 : 22 If you ask yourself, ‘Why has this happened to me?’ it is because of your many sins. Your skirts have been torn off, and your heels have been exposed.
- Jer 13:26 : 26 So I will expose your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.
- Jer 27:7 : 7 All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.
- Lam 5:13 : 13 Young men toil at the grinding millstones, and boys stumble under heavy loads of wood.
- Ezek 16:37-39 : 37 therefore I am going to gather all your lovers with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side, and I will expose your nakedness to them, so they may see all your shame. 38 I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood. I will bring upon you the wrath and jealousy of my judgment. 39 I will deliver you into their hands, and they will tear down your mounds and demolish your high places. They will strip you of your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
- Hos 2:3 : 3 Say to your brothers, 'My people,' and to your sisters, 'She has received mercy.'
- Mic 1:11 : 11 Pass by, naked and ashamed, you inhabitants of Shaphir. The inhabitants of Zaanan do not come out. Beth-ezel is in mourning; its support is taken from you.
- Nah 3:5-6 : 5 Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts. I will lift up your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame. 6 I will throw filth on you, treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle.
- Isa 3:17 : 17 therefore the Lord will make the crowns of the daughters of Zion scabby, and the LORD will expose their secret parts.'
- Luke 17:35 : 35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.
- Gen 24:65 : 65 She said to the servant, 'Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?' The servant replied, 'He is my master.' So she took her veil and covered herself.
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