Isaiah 47:2

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; Micah 1:11; Matthew 24:41; Nahum 3:5; Nahum 3:6

Related Commentaries of 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 redu...
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...
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 bid...
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 gro...
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,...
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 me...
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...
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 - lik...
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.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Grind ] i.e. as a slave ( Exodus 11:5 ). Uncover, etc.] RV 'remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg.' The overthrow of the city is...
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 pic...
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...
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...
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,...
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 fu...
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, wher...
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. ]...
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 a...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Babylon Threatened. B. C. 708. 1 Come...
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 sh...
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 lo...
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 h...
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 stre...
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 stanza...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Humiliation of the Daughter of Babylon
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Take the millstones, those of the hand-mill, as turned by female slaves, and grind meal, the grain being fed in through the center opening above an...
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 no...

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

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 47:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 47:2