Isaiah 47:2

Isaiah 47:2 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

2Take millstones and grind flour;

take off your veil.

Lift up your skirts, bare your legs,

and wade through the streams.

2“Take the millstones and grind flour.

Remove your veil, strip off the skirt,

Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

2Take the millstones and grind meal.

Remove your veil, strip off the skirt,

Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

2“Take millstones [as a female slave does] and grind meal;

Remove your veil, strip off the skirt,

Uncover the leg, cross the rivers [at the command of your captors].

2Take millstones and grind flour;

remove your veil;

strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,

and wade through the streams.

2Get millstones and grind some flour like a female slave.

Take off your veil.

Lift up your skirts. Make your legs bare.

Wade through the streams.