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Isaiah 47:2
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KJ21
Take the millstones and grind meal; uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
ASV
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
AMP
“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].
AMPC
Take the millstones [like the poorest female slave of the household does] and grind meal; take off your veil and uncover your hair. Remove your skirt, bare your leg, wade through the rivers [at the command of your captors].
BRG
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
CSB
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams.
CSBA
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams.
CEB
Take the millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your robe, expose your thighs, wade through the rivers!
CJB
Take the millstones, and grind meal; take off your veil, strip off your skirt, uncover your legs, wade through the streams.
CEV
Start grinding grain! Take off your veil. Strip off your fancy clothes and wade across rivers.
DARBY
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:
DRA
Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
ERV
Get the millstones ready and grind the grain into flour. Take off your veil and fancy clothes. Lift your skirt and get ready to cross the rivers.
EASY
Use heavy stones to make grain into flour. Take the veil off your face. Lift up your skirt. Walk through streams of water with bare legs.
EHV
Take millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil. Strip off your skirt. Expose your thighs. Wade through rivers.
ESV
Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
ESVUK
Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
EXB
Take millstones and grind grain into flour. Remove your veil and ·take [strip] off your nice skirts. Uncover your legs and cross the rivers [C actions of a servant, not a queen].
GNV
Take the millstones, and grind meal; loose thy locks: make bare the feet: uncover the leg, and pass through the floods.
GW
Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil. Take off your skirt. Uncover your legs, and cross the river.
GNT
Turn the millstone! Grind the flour! Off with your veil! Strip off your fine clothes! Lift up your skirts to cross the streams!
HCSB
Take millstones and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams.
ICB
You must use large stones to grind grain into flour. Remove your veil and your nice skirts. Uncover your legs and cross the rivers.
ISV
Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.
JUB
Take the millstones and grind meal; uncover thy locks, remove the shoes from thy feet, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
KJV
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
AKJV
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
LSB
Take the millstones and grind flour. Uncover your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
LEB
Take the pair of mill stones and grind flour! Uncover your veil, strip off your skirt, uncover your thigh, pass through the rivers!
TLB
Take heavy millstones and grind the corn; remove your veil; strip off your robe; expose yourself to public view.
MSG
“Get off your high horse and sit in the dirt, virgin daughter of Babylon. No more throne for you—sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans. Nobody will be calling you ‘charming’ and ‘alluring’ anymore. Get used to it. Get a job, any old job: Clean gutters, scrub toilets. Pawn your gowns and scarves, put on your working pants—the party’s over. Your nude body will be on public display, exposed to vulgar taunts. It’s vengeance time, and I’m taking vengeance. No one gets let off the hook.”
MEV
Take the millstones and grind meal. Uncover your veil, strip off the skirt, uncover the leg, pass over the rivers.
NOG
Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil. Take off your skirt. Uncover your legs, and cross the river.
NABRE
Take the millstone and grind flour, remove your veil; Strip off your skirt, bare your legs, cross through the streams.
NASB
Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
NASB1995
“Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
NCB
Take the millstone and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.
NCV
You must use large stones to grind grain into flour. Remove your veil and your nice skirts. Uncover your legs and cross the rivers.
NET
Pick up millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams.
NIRV
Get 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.
NIV
Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.
NIVUK
Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.
NKJV
Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt, Uncover the thigh, Pass through the rivers.
NLV
Take the heavy stones and grind grain. Take off your face-covering and your clothing. Take the covering off your legs, and cross the rivers.
NLT
Take heavy millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view.
NRSVA
Take the millstones and grind meal, remove your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
NRSVACE
Take the millstones and grind meal, remove your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
NRSVCE
Take the millstones and grind meal, remove your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
NRSVUE
Take the millstones and grind meal; remove your veil; strip off your robe; uncover your legs; pass through the rivers.
OJB
Take the millstones, and grind meal; uncover thy tzammah (hair, tresses) lift up thy shohvel (train, skirt), bare the thigh, pass over the neharot.
RGT
“Take the millstones and grind meal. Loosen your veil. Make your feet bare. Uncover your leg. Pass through the rivers.
RSV
Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
RSVCE
Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
TLV
Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
VOICE
And with those delicate fingers grab the heavy millstones and grind the grain. Take off your lacy veil, lift your skirt, bare your legs, and Cross the mud and muck of the river on foot like any other slave.
WEB
Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.
WYC
Take thou a quern-stone, and grind thou meal; make thou naked thy filth(hood), discover the shoulder, show the hips, pass thou [over the] floods. (Take thou a millstone, and grind thou some meal with it; make thou thyself naked, yea, uncover the shoulder, show the hips, and cross thou over the rivers.)
YLT
Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
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