Isaiah 47:2

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

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Other Translations for Isaiah 47:2

BSB
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
AKJV
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover your locks, make bore the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
CPDV
Take a millstone and grind meal. Uncover your shame, bare your shoulder, reveal your legs, cross the streams.
ERV
Take the millstones, and grind meal: remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
NHEB
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
SMT
Take the two mill-stones and grind flour, and uncover thy veil; strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

Commentary for Isaiah 47:2

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Barnes’ Notes Classic commentary from Albert Barnes Matthew Henry Commentary Classic commentary from Matthew Henry
Overview of Isaiah 47:2
Summary
Babylonian women forced into degrading manual labor
Place
Babylon
Event
Women reduced to enslaved workers
Estimated Time Period
c. 700 BC
Category
Judgment