Joel 3:13

They are like [MET] crops that are ready to be harvested; so strike them like [MET] a farmer swings his sickle to cut the grain. They are like [MET] grapes that are piled high in the pits where they will be pressed; because they are very wicked, punish them severely [MET] now, like [MET] a farmer tramples on the grapes until the pits are full of juice.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

In Context

12The people in the nations near Judah must get ready and come to the Valley of Judgment. There Yahweh will sit and judge and punish them.

14There will be huge crowds of people in that Valley of Judgment. It will soon be the time that Yahweh will punish them.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:13You need to know that people who lived there were extremely wicked.

Genesis 18:20So Yahweh said to Abraham, “I have heard the terrible things that have been said about the people of [MTY] Sodom and Gomorrah. Their sins are very great.

Isaiah 63:3He replies, “I have been treading on my enemies, not on grapes. I did it myself; no one helped me. I punished them because I was very angry with them, and my clothes became stained with their blood.

Lamentations 1:15Yahweh looked at our mighty soldiers and laughed at them. He has summoned a great army to come and crush our young soldiers. It is as though [MET] Yahweh has trampled on us people of Judah like [SIM] people trample on grapes in a pit to make wine.

Matthew 13:39The enemy who sowed the weed seeds represents the devil. The time when the reapers will harvest the grain represents the time when the world will end. The reapers represent the angels.

Revelation 14:15Another angel came out of the temple in heaven. In a loud voice, speaking figuratively about gathering people for God to judge them, he said to the one who was sitting on the cloud, “The time has come to reap the grain on the earth, so with your sickle reap the grain, because the grain on the earth is ripe.”

Matthew Henry on Joel 3:10-18

Threatenings against Israel's Enemies. ( b. c. 720.) 9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord . 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will… Read the whole commentary →

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