Isaiah 47:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 24:41 : 41 two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.
  • Exod 11:5 : 5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock.
  • Judg 16:21 : 21 The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
  • Job 31:10 : 10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
  • Isa 20:4 : 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
  • Isa 32:11 : 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
  • Jer 13:22 : 22 If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.
  • Jer 13:26 : 26 Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear.
  • Jer 27:7 : 7 All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.
  • Lam 5:13 : 13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
  • Ezek 16:37-39 : 37 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. 38 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 39 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.
  • Hos 2:3 : 3 Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
  • Mic 1:11 : 11 Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won't come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.
  • Nah 3:5-6 : 5 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. 6 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
  • Isa 3:17 : 17 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald."
  • Luke 17:35 : 35 There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left."
  • Gen 24:65 : 65 She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself.

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