Isaiah 47:2
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2 Take the millstone and grind flour,
remove your veil;
Strip off your skirt, bare your legs,
cross through the streams.
Isaiah 47:3
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3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
and your shame be seen;
I will take vengeance,
I will yield to no entreaty,
says
Nahum 3:5
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5 [a]I now come against you—
oracle of the Lord of hosts—
and I will lift your skirt above your face;
I will show your nakedness to the nations,
to the kingdoms your shame!(A)
Footnotes
- 3:5–6 The punishment for adulterous women.
Nahum 3:8
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Nineveh’s Inescapable Fate
8 Are you better than No-amon[a](A)
that was set among the Nile’s canals,
Surrounded by waters,
with the river for her rampart
and water for her wall?
Footnotes
- 3:8 No-amon: “No” was the Egyptian name of the capital of Upper Egypt, called Thebes by the Greeks; its patron deity was Amon. This great city was destroyed by the Assyrians in 663 B.C.
Nahum 3:9
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9 Ethiopia was her strength,
and Egypt without end;
Put[a] and the Libyans
were her allies.
Footnotes
- 3:9 Put: a North African people often associated with Egypt and Ethiopia (Jer 46:8–9).
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