Joel 3:13

Put in the sickle, 1 for the harvest is ripe. 1 Come, crush the grapes, 1 for the winepress is full. 1 The vats overflow, 1 for their wickedness is enormous.” 1

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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

12Let the nations wake themselves up 1 and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. 1 For there will I sit to judge 1 all the surrounding nations. 1

14There is a tumult, a tumult in the Valley of Judgment. 1 For the day of Yahweh is near in the Valley of Judgment. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 13:13Now the men of Sodom were very wicked sinners against Yahweh.

Genesis 18:20Then Yahweh said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and because their sin is so serious,

Isaiah 63:3I have trodden grapes in the winepress alone, and no one from the nations joined me. 1 I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my fury. 1 Their blood is spattered on my clothes and stained all my clothes. 1

Lamentations 1:15The Lord has tossed aside all my mighty men who defended me. 1 He has called an assembly against me to crush my vigorous men. 1 The Lord has trampled the virgin daughter of Judah in the winepress. 1

Matthew 13:39and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

Revelation 14:15Then another angel came out of the temple and called with a loud voice to the one sitting on the cloud: “Take your sickle and start to reap. For the time to reap has come, since the harvest of 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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