Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Cross-reference
In Isaiah 20:4, Assyria leads captives naked and barefoot to Egypt's shame — this forced exposure directly parallels Babylon's bare leg and stripped skirt.
In Isaiah 3:17, the Lord humiliates the daughters of Zion by making their heads bare — similar stripping imagery applied to proud women.
In Judges 16:21, Samson is forced to grind at the mill after capture — a vivid parallel of a once-mighty figure reduced to slave labor.
In Jeremiah 13:22, Jerusalem's skirts are lifted up for her shame — the same exposure imagery of lifted skirts applied to Judah.
In Jeremiah 13:26, God pulls up skirts to expose shame — identical imagery of divine judgment through public humiliation.
In Lamentations 5:13, young men are forced to grind at the mill during siege — this echoes Babylon's grinding as a mark of conquest.
Ezekiel 16:37-39 strips Jerusalem naked as punishment — same metaphor of exposing shame as judgment for unfaithfulness.
Hosea 2:3 threatens to strip Israel naked like a newborn — parallel use of nakedness as shameful judgment.
Nahum 3:5 lifts skirts over Nineveh's face to show nakedness — nearly identical language of divine humiliation.
In Exodus 11:5, the maidservant grinding at the mill is the lowest slave — Babylon's grinding here marks her reduction to that same humiliated state.
In Job 31:10, grinding for another is a curse of sexual disgrace — Babylon's grinding similarly signifies shame and exploitation.