Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams. New Living Translation Take heavy millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view. English Standard Version Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers. Berean Standard Bible Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. King James Bible Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. New King James Version Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt, Uncover the thigh, Pass through the rivers. New American Standard Bible “Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers. NASB 1995 “Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers. NASB 1977 “Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers. Legacy Standard Bible Take the millstones and grind flour. Uncover your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers. Amplified Bible “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]. Christian Standard Bible Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams. Holman Christian Standard Bible Take millstones and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams. American Standard Version Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. Contemporary English Version Start grinding grain! Take off your veil. Strip off your fancy clothes and wade across rivers. English Revised Version Take the millstones, and grind meal: remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. GOD'S WORD® Translation Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil. Take off your skirt. Uncover your legs, and cross the river. Good News Translation Turn the millstone! Grind the flour! Off with your veil! Strip off your fine clothes! Lift up your skirts to cross 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. Majority Standard Bible Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. 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. Webster's Bible Translation 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 flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionTake millstones, and grind flour, "" Remove your veil, draw up the skirt, "" Uncover the leg, pass over the floods. Young's Literal Translation Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods. Smith's Literal Translation Take the two mill-stones and grind flour, and uncover thy veil; strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleTake a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers. Catholic Public Domain Version Take a millstone and grind meal. Uncover your shame, bare your shoulder, reveal your legs, cross the streams. New American Bible Take the millstone and grind flour, remove your veil; Strip off your skirt, bare your legs, cross through the streams. New Revised Standard Version Take the millstones and grind meal, remove your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleTake the millstone and grind flour; remove your veil, cut off your white hair, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Take a millstone, grind flour, open your veil, cut your white hair, reveal your lower legs, pass over the rivers OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Take the millstones, and grind meal; Remove thy veil, Strip off the train, uncover the leg, Pass through the rivers. Brenton Septuagint Translation Take a millstone, grind meal: remove thy veil, uncover thy white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Fall of Babylon Predicted1“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. 2Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. 3Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”… Cross References Jeremiah 25:10 Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. Nahum 3:5-6 “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms. / I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you. Lamentations 1:8-9 Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away. / Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed! Ezekiel 16:37-39 therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked. / And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy. / Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare. Micah 1:11 Depart in shameful nakedness, O dwellers of Shaphir. The dwellers of Zaanan will not come out. Beth-ezel is in mourning; its support is taken from you. Revelation 18:7-8 As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’ / Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.” Jeremiah 13:22 And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed. Nahum 3:4-5 because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft. / “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms. 2 Kings 24:15 Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols. Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. Ezekiel 23:26-29 They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry. / So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’ / For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from whom you turned away in disgust. ... Jeremiah 51:13 You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut. Revelation 18:22-23 And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again. / The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.” Jeremiah 51:25 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain. Treasury of Scripture Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover your locks, make bore the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. the milestones Exodus 11:5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts. Judges 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. Job 31:10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. make bare Isaiah 3:17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. Isaiah 20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. Jeremiah 13:22,26 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare… Jump to Previous Bare Cross Crushed Draw Flour Grind Leg Lift Meal Millstones Remove Rivers Robe Skirt Skirts Streams Strip Thigh Train Uncover Uncovered Veil WadeJump to Next Bare Cross Crushed Draw Flour Grind Leg Lift Meal Millstones Remove Rivers Robe Skirt Skirts Streams Strip Thigh Train Uncover Uncovered Veil WadeIsaiah 47 1. God's judgment upon Babylon and Chaldea6. For their unmercifulness 7. Pride 10. And over-boldness 11. Shall be irresistible Take millstones and grind flour; This phrase signifies a call to labor and servitude, reflecting the reversal of fortunes for Babylon. In ancient times, grinding flour was a task for servants or captives, indicating a loss of status and power. The imagery of millstones connects to the daily, menial labor that was often assigned to women or slaves, highlighting the humbling of Babylon. This can be seen as a fulfillment of the prophecy against Babylon, where the once proud city is brought low (Isaiah 13:19). The use of millstones also recalls the judgment against Babylon in Revelation 18:21, where a mighty angel casts a stone into the sea, symbolizing Babylon's downfall. remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. Persons / Places / Events 1. BabylonA significant city and empire in ancient Mesopotamia, often symbolizing pride and idolatry in the Bible. In Isaiah 47, Babylon is personified as a woman who will face humiliation and judgment. 2. Daughter of the Chaldeans This phrase refers to the inhabitants of Babylon, specifically highlighting their cultural and spiritual identity. The Chaldeans were known for their wisdom and astrology, which often led them away from the true God. 3. Isaiah A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah conveyed God's messages of judgment and redemption to the people of Israel and surrounding nations, including Babylon. Teaching Points Humility Before GodThe passage serves as a reminder of the importance of humility. Babylon's pride led to its downfall, teaching us to remain humble before God and acknowledge His sovereignty. Consequences of Idolatry Babylon's reliance on false gods and practices resulted in judgment. We are called to examine our lives for any idols that may take precedence over our relationship with God. God's Sovereignty Over Nations Isaiah 47:2 illustrates that no nation or power is beyond God's control. This reassures believers that God is actively involved in the affairs of the world and will bring about His justice. Repentance and Redemption While the passage focuses on judgment, it also implicitly calls for repentance. Recognizing our sins and turning back to God can lead to redemption and restoration.(2) Take the millstones.--Always the most servile form of female labour (Exodus 11:5; Job 31:10; Matthew 24:41). Uncover thy locks.--The picture of suffering is heightened by the fact that the female slave has to wade unveiled, and bare-legged, all sense of shame outraged, to the scene of her labours. The picture is, of course, to be taken symbolically, not literally. Verse 2. - Take the millstones, and grind meal. Do the hard work commonly allotted to female slaves. Turn the heavy upper millstone all day long upon the nether one (comp. Exodus 11:5). Babylon having been personified as a female captive, the details have to be in unison. Uncover thy locks. Babylonian women are represented in the Assyrian sculptures as wearing closefitting caps upon their heads (see 'Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 2, p. 500). Make bare the leg... pass over the rivers. On the way from their own city to the land of their captivity, they would have to wade through streams, and in so doing to expose parts of their persons which delicacy required to be concealed.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Takeקְחִ֥י (qə·ḥî) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 3947: To take millstones רֵחַ֖יִם (rê·ḥa·yim) Noun - md Strong's 7347: A mill-stone and grind וְטַ֣חֲנִי (wə·ṭa·ḥă·nî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 2912: To grind meal, to be a, concubine flour; קָ֑מַח (qā·maḥ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7058: Flour, meal remove גַּלִּ֨י (gal·lî) Verb - Piel - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal your veil, צַמָּתֵ֧ךְ (ṣam·mā·ṯêḵ) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular Strong's 6777: (woman's) veil strip off חֶשְׂפִּי־ (ḥeś·pî-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 2834: To strip off, to make naked, to drain away, bail up your skirt, שֹׁ֛בֶל (šō·ḇel) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7640: Flowing skirt, train bare גַּלִּי־ (gal·lî-) Verb - Piel - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal your thigh, שׁ֖וֹק (šō·wq) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7785: The, leg wade through עִבְרִ֥י (‘iḇ·rî) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on the streams. נְהָרֽוֹת׃ (nə·hā·rō·wṯ) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 5104: A stream, prosperity Links Isaiah 47:2 NIVIsaiah 47:2 NLT Isaiah 47:2 ESV Isaiah 47:2 NASB Isaiah 47:2 KJV Isaiah 47:2 BibleApps.com Isaiah 47:2 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 47:2 Chinese Bible Isaiah 47:2 French Bible Isaiah 47:2 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 47:2 Take the millstones and grind meal (Isa Isi Is) |
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