2Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.


In Context

1 "Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or delicate.

2 Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.

3 Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one."

4 Our Redeemer-the Lord Almighty is his name- is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 47:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

47:2Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal: remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

47:2Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover your locks, make bore the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.