Isaiah 47:2

Translations

Modern

Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

Traditional

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

Literal

Take the millstones and grind flour! Uncover your veil and strip away your skirt; uncover your thigh; pass over the rivers!

Latin

Tolle molam, et mole farinam; denuda turpitudinem tuam; discooperi humerum, revela crura, transi flumina.

Original

Hebrew

English

Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

Notes

Isaiah 47:1–4

In this taunt against Babylon, the nation is described as a proud queen.

But she is brought low and humiliated. Instead of ruling, she is forced to work like a servant girl.

Isaiah 47:1–48:22

We can draw two conclusions from the earlier evidence that the Lord alone is God:

Babylon's great pride is foolish (Isaiah 47:1–15);
Israel should listen to the word of the Lord (Isaiah 48:1–22).

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah God’s Servant Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Judges 16:21
Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
Isaiah 20:4
…so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.
Matthew 24:41
Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
Exodus 11:5
…and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
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.
Job 31:10
…then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
Genesis 24:65
…and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
Hosea 2:3
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
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.
Luke 17:35
Two women will be grinding grain together: one will be taken and the other left.”
Isaiah 32:11
Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
Jeremiah 13:26
So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

Glossary

Church Family Life and Relations Isaiah, Book of Mill New Creation, New Creature

Topics

Babylon: Predictions Respecting: Destruction of Mill: Upper and Lower Stones of Mills used for Grinding: Corn Mills: (Grinding At) of Degradation Shoes: (Taken off) an Ignominious and Servile Condition

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