Joel 3:13 “Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, f…”

Joel 3:13

Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”

American Standard Version

Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, tread ye; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

Geneva Bible 1599

Put in your sithes, for the haruest is ripe: come, get you downe, for the winepresse is full: yea, the winepresses runne ouer, for their wickednesse is great.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Send ye forth a sickle, For ripened hath harvest, Come in, come down, for filled hath been the press, Overflowed hath wine-presses, For great [is] their wickedness.

Bible in Basic English

Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.

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Cross references

“the sickle”

Mark 4:29 Deuteronomy 16:9 Revelation 14:15 Revelation 14:16

Mark 4:29 · BSB

And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come. ”

Deuteronomy 16:9 · BSB

You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.

Revelation 14:15 · BSB

Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest, for the crop of the earth is ripe.”

Revelation 14:16 · BSB

So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

“the harvest”

Hosea 6:11 Jeremiah 51:33 Matthew 13:39

Hosea 6:11 · BSB

Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.

Jeremiah 51:33 · BSB

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”

Matthew 13:39 · BSB

and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

“for the press”

Isaiah 63:3 Lamentations 1:15 Revelation 14:17–20

Isaiah 63:3 · BSB

“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

Lamentations 1:15 · BSB

The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.

Revelation 14:17–20 · BSB

Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.

“for their”

Genesis 18:20 Genesis 13:13 Genesis 15:16

Genesis 18:20 · BSB

Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

Genesis 13:13 · BSB

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 15:16 · BSB

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.

14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

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