Isaiah 47:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Isaiah 47:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take the millstones, and grind meal - The design of this is plain. Babylon, that had been regarded as a delicately-trained female, was to be reduced to the lowest condition of poverty and wretche...
Isaiah 47:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Take the millstones, and (c) grind meal: uncover thy locks, (d) make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. (c) You will be brought to most vile servitude: for to turn the mill was t...
Isaiah 47:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

A Taunt-Song of Triumph on the Fall of Babylon. Isaiah 47:1-7 . Babylon, erroneously personified as a virgin, as if never before captured, is bidden descend from the effeminate ease of her throne...
Isaiah 47:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

grind meal: the work of slaves ( Exodus 11:5 . Matthew 24:41 ; Matthew 24:41 ). meal. Put by Figure of speech, for the corn from which meal is ground. uncover thy locks . remove thy veil. make...
Isaiah 47:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. Take millstones. The whole of this description tends to shew that there shall be a great change among the Babylonians, so that this city, which was formerly held in the highest honor, sha...
Isaiah 47:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. Take the millstones, and grind meal "Take the mill, and grind corn" - It was the wo...
Isaiah 47:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Come down, and sit in the dust, &c.— The prophet here commands Babylon to assume the habit and forms of the most abject state, most opposite to that state of honour and glory in which she had l...
Isaiah 47:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. Take the millstones - like the querns or hand-mills found in this country b...
Isaiah 47:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

An Ode on the Humiliation of Babylon 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it.
Isaiah 47:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 t...
Isaiah 47:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Isaiah 48:1-22 CHAPTER IX FOUR POINTS OF A TRUE RELIGION Isaiah 43:1-28 - Isaiah 48:1-22 WE have now surveyed the...
Isaiah 47:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Penalty of Trusting in Wickedness Isaiah 47:1-15 Babylon dwelt in careless security. She was given to pleasures, Isaiah 47:8 ; and said in her heart that her vast crowd of astrologers, mag...
Isaiah 47:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The prophecy is now addressed to Babylon itself, and in language full of force and beauty describes its judgment. The description is fourfold. First, the degradation of the city is foretold. From a p...
Isaiah 47:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If we read these verses with an eye to the history of Babylon, as a people, we shall find, that the threatenings here denounced were all literally fulfilled: Babylon, which had conquered all nations,...
Isaiah 47:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Take the millstones, and grind meal ,.... Foretelling that the Chaldeans should be taken captives, and used as such, and sent to prison houses, where they should turn the mill, and grind corn into m...
Isaiah 47:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. Ver. 2. Take the millstone. ] As the most abject slaves used to do, qui in pist...
Isaiah 47:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Come down From thy throne; and sit in the dust As a mourner for thy approaching calamities; O virgin daughter of Babylon Thou that art tender and delicate like a virgin. Sit on the ground In...
Isaiah 47:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Babylon Threatened. B. C. 708. 1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Ba...
Isaiah 47:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Take the millstones; betake thyself to the millstones; as we commonly say, Take thy bed , or, Betake thyself to thy bed . The meaning is, Thou shalt be brought down to the basest kind of slavery,...
Isaiah 47:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate. Take the mill...
Isaiah 47:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 47:2 . Take the millstones and grind meal. Prepare the weekly loaf, as was anciently the custom, a work which the servants performed with handmills. Isaiah 47:4 . Our Redeemer, the Lord...
Isaiah 47:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Come down, and sit in the dust Dirge on the downfall of Babylon: Babylon is pictured as a royal lady, dethroned, led in captivity over the streams to a distant land, and there made the meanest...
Isaiah 47:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 47:1-23 A SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER THE FALL OF BABYLON . The song divides itself into four strophes, or stanzas—the first one of four verses ( Isaiah 47:1-23 );...
Isaiah 47:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Humiliation of the Daughter of Babylon
Isaiah 47:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 11:5 ; Ezekiel 16:37-39 ; Hosea 2:3 ; Isaiah 20:4 ; Isaiah 3:17 ; Jeremiah 13:22 ; Jeremiah 13:26 ; Jeremiah 27:7 ; Job 31:10 ; Judges 16:21 ; Lamentations 5:13 ; Luke 17:35 ; Mic...
Isaiah 47:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Millstones — Thou shalt be brought to the basest slavery, which grinding at the mill was esteemed. For this work was not performed by horses, as now it is, but by the labour of slaves and captives....

Isaiah 47:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 47:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 47:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 47:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 47:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 47:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 47:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 47:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 47:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 47:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 47:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 47:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 47:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes