Isaiah 47:2-4

Contemporary English Version

²Start grinding grain!
    Take off your veil.
Strip off your fancy clothes
    and wade across rivers.^[a]
³You will suffer the shame
    of going naked,
because I will take revenge,
    and no one can escape.^[b]
⁴I am the Lord All-Powerful,
the holy God of Israel.
    I am their Savior.

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Footnotes

47.2 Strip … rivers: This may be a command to get ready for work that requires wading in the river, or it may be a warning that they are going to be taken away as slaves.
47.3 escape: Or “oppose me.”