Isaiah 47:2
What does Isaiah 47:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 47:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Take 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:
Context
v.1Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
v.2This passage
v.3Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Luke 17:35
There shall be two women grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
- Isaiah 20:4
so shall the king of Assyria 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.
- Ezekiel 16:37
therefore behold, I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them against thee on every side, and will uncover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
- Nahum 3:5
Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
- Judges 16:21
And 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 did grind in the prison-house.
- Exodus 11:5
and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle.
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