Take the millstones, and grind meal - The design of this is plain. Babylon, which had been regarded as a delicately reared female, …

Take the millstones. —Always the most servile form of female labour (Exodus 11:5; Job 31:10; [Reference Matthew 24…

Take millstones. The whole of this description tends to show that there shall be a great change among the Babylonians. This city, formerly…

Take the millstones, and grind meal
Foretelling that the Chaldeans should be taken captives, and used as such, and s…

Babylon is represented under the emblem of a female in deep distress. She was to be degraded and endure sufferings; and is represented sitting on t…

1. Come down, and sit in the dust. Here the prophet foretells the degradation of the kingdom of Babylon. In this regard, he does th…