Isaiah 47:2 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.

English ASV

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

English Amplified

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].

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

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].

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:

English EASY 2024

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.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

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.

Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Turn the millstone! Grind the flour! Off with your veil! Strip off your fine clothes! Lift up your skirts to cross the streams!

English God's Word - GW 1995

Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil. Take off your skirt. Uncover your legs, and cross the river.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Take millstones and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off [your] skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

Take the millstones and grind flour. Uncover your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Take the millstones and grind meal. Uncover your veil, strip off the skirt, uncover the leg, pass over the rivers.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Take the millstone and grind flour, remove your veil; Strip off your train, bare your legs, pass through the streams.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Get millstones and grind some flour like a female slave. Take your veil off. Lift your skirts up. Make your legs bare. Wade through the streams.

English NIV

Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.

English NKJ 1982

Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt, Uncover the thigh, Pass through the rivers.

English NLT

Take heavy millstones and grind the corn. Remove your veil and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Take the millstones and grind meal, remove your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Take off your pretty veil; take two millstones and grind grain. Lift your skirt, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Take heavy millstones and grind the corn; remove your veil; strip off your robe; expose yourself to public view.

English Tyndale 1537

Thou shalt bring forth the quern and grind meal, put down thy stomacher make bare thy knees, and shalt wade thorow the water rivers.

Isaiah 47:2 — Compare Translations