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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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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 47:2
18th Century
Theologian
Take the millstones, and grind meal - The design of this is plain. Babylon, which had been regarded as a delicately reared female, …
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 47:2
19th Century
Bishop
Take the millstones. —Always the most servile form of female labour (Exodus 11:5; Job 31:10; [Reference Matthew 24…
John Calvin
On Isaiah 47:2
16th Century
Theologian
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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John Gill
On Isaiah 47:2
17th Century
Pastor
Take the millstones, and grind meal
Foretelling that the Chaldeans should be taken captives, and used as such, and s…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 47:1–6
17th Century
Minister
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…