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Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
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From Queen to Slave
Commentators unanimously explain that this verse uses powerful imagery to depict Babylon's fall from a position of honor to one of utter disgrace. The command to 'take the millstones and grind meal' forces the once-proud city, personified as a queen, into the most menial and laborious task reserved for female slaves in the ancient world, signifying a complete and humiliating reversal of fortune.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Take the millstones, and grind meal - The design of this is plain. Babylon, which had been regarded as a delicately reared female, …
19th Century
Anglican
Take the millstones. —Always the most servile form of female labour (Exodus 11:5; Job 31:10; [Reference Matthew 24…
16th Century
Protestant
Take millstones. The whole of this description tends to show that there shall be a great change among the Babylonians. This city, formerly…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
13th Century
Catholic
Come down, and sit in the dust. Here the prophet foretells the degradation of the kingdom of Babylon. In this regard, he does th…
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