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Take the millstone and grind flour,
    remove your veil;
Strip off your skirt, bare your legs,
    cross through the streams.
Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
    and your shame be seen;
I will take vengeance,
    I will yield to no entreaty,
    says

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Take millstones(A) and grind(B) flour;
    take off your veil.(C)
Lift up your skirts,(D) bare your legs,
    and wade through the streams.
Your nakedness(E) will be exposed
    and your shame(F) uncovered.
I will take vengeance;(G)
    I will spare no one.(H)

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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)

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22 And if you ask yourself,
    “Why has this happened to me?”(A)
it is because of your many sins(B)
    that your skirts have been torn off(C)
    and your body mistreated.(D)

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26 I now will strip away your skirts,
    so that your shame is visible.(A)

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26 I will pull up your skirts over your face
    that your shame may be seen(A)

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[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)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:5–6 The punishment for adulterous women.

“I am against(A) you,” declares the Lord Almighty.
    “I will lift your skirts(B) over your face.
I will show the nations your nakedness(C)
    and the kingdoms your shame.

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