Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 47:2

2. Take the Milstones and grind meal , uncover thy locks : make bare the leg: uncover the thigh , pass over the Rivers.

Betake thy self to the Milstones; as we commonly say, take thy bed, or, betake thy self to thy bed. The meaning is, Thou shalt be brought down to the basest kind of slavery, which grinding at the Mill was esteemed; of which see on Exod. 11. 5. Iudg. 16. 21. Iob. 31, 10. Lament. 5. 13. For this work was not performed by horses, as now it is, but by the labour of Slaves and Captives.

Grind breadcorn into meal for thy Masters use. Such metonymical expressions, we find Isa. 28. 28. Hose. 8. 7. and elsewhere

Or, thine hair. Take off the Ornaments wherewith such women as were free, and of good quality, used to cover and dress their heads. This and the following passages, though delivered in the form of a Command, are onely Predictions of what they should be forted to do or suffer, as appears from the next verse.

Gird up thy garments close and short about thee, that thou mayest be fit for service, and for travelling on foot, and as it follows, for passing over those Rivers, through which thou wilt be constrained to wade, in the way to the Land of thy Captivity.