Isaiah 47:2-3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Take the millstone and grind flour,
remove your veil;
Strip off your skirt, bare your legs,
cross through the streams.
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
and your shame be seen;
I will take vengeance,
I will yield to no entreaty,
says
Jeremiah 13:22
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
22 If you say to yourself:
“Why have these things happened to me?”
For your great guilt your skirts are stripped away
and you are violated.(A)
Jeremiah 13:26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
26 I now will strip away your skirts,
so that your shame is visible.(A)
Nahum 3:5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
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.
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