Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Context
This verse from Isaiah Chapter 47 connects to 10 cross-references. A taunt against Babylon personified as a proud queen: she will be humiliated, ground at the mill, lose her children in a moment. Her astrologers and sorcerers cannot save her — they are like stubble the fire consumes.
Other Translations
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
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.
Cross References
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his …
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with …
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird …
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and …
Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the …
And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land …
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are …
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break …