Isaiah Chapter 47 verse 2 Holy Bible
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
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Take 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.
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Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:
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Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
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Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
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Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.
