Joel 3:13

Joel 3:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow— so great is their wickedness!”
• English Standard Version (ESV)Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the winepress is full, The vats overflow— For their wickedness is great.”

Context of Joel 3:13

11Hurry from every direction, and gather there, all you nations. O Lord, bring your soldiers. 12Wake up, you nations. Come to the valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. Cut them down like grain. The harvest is ripe. Stomp on them as you would stomp on grapes. The winepress is full. The vats overflow. The nations are very wicked. 14There are many, many people in the valley of decision. The day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. 15The sun and the moon will turn dark. The stars will no longer shine.

Joel 3:13 word by word

שִׁלְח֣וּ מַגָּ֔ל כִּ֥י בָשַׁ֖ל קָצִ֑יר בֹּ֤אֽוּ רְדוּ֙ כִּֽי־מָ֣לְאָה גַּ֔ת הֵשִׁ֙יקוּ֙ הַיְקָבִ֔ים כִּ֥י רַבָּ֖ה רָעָתָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Putשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: reachH7971
• ye in the sickleמַגָּלmaggâl · sickleH4038
• for the harvestקָצִירqâtsîyr · harvestH7105
• is ripeבָּשַׁלbâshal · to boilH1310
• comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• get you downיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
• for the pressגַּתgath · wine pressH1660
• is fullמָלֵאmâlê' mâlâ' · to fillH4390
• the fatsיֶ֫קֶבyeqeb · wineH3342
• overflowשׁוּקshûq · to overflowH7783
• for their wickednessרָעָהra‛ râ‛âh · distress: evilH7451
• greatרַבrab · manyH7227

Cross-references for Joel 3:13

• Deuteronomy 16:9Count seven weeks from the time you start harvesting grain.
• Mark 4:29As soon as the grain is ready, he cuts it with a sickle, because harvest time has come.”
• Revelation 14:15Another angel came out of the temple. He cried out in a loud voice to the one who sat on the cloud, “Swing your sickle, and gather the harvest. The time has come to gather it, because the harvest on the earth is overripe.”
• Jeremiah 51:33This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: The people of Babylon are like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. Their harvest time will come soon.
• Hosea 6:11“Yet, Judah, I have set a harvest time for you when I bring my people back from captivity.
• Matthew 13:39The enemy who planted them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the world. The workers are angels.
• Isaiah 63:3“I have trampled alone in the winepress. No one was with me. In my anger I trampled on people. In my wrath I stomped on them. Their blood splattered my clothes so all my clothing has been stained.
• Lamentations 1:15The Lord has treated all the warriors inside my ⌞walls⌟ with contempt. He called an army to defeat my young men. The Lord trampled the people of Judah in a winepress.
• Revelation 14:17Another angel came out of the temple in heaven. He, too, had a sharp sickle.
• Genesis 13:13(The people who lived in Sodom were very wicked. They committed terrible sins against the Lord.)
• Genesis 15:16In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, because the sin of the Amorites will not have run its course until then.”
• Genesis 18:20The Lord also said, “Sodom and Gomorrah have many complaints against them, and their sin is very serious.

Commentaries on Joel 3:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Put ye in the sickle - The destruction of his enemies is represented here under the metaphor of reaping down the harvest; and of gathering the grapes, and treading them in the wine-presses.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe - So Jesus saith, “let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them;” and this He explains, “The harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the Angels” Matthew 13:30, Matthew 13:39. He then who saith, “put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe,” is the Son of Man, who, before He…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-17Verses 9-17 Here is a challenge to all the enemies of God's people. There is no escaping God's judgments; hardened sinners, in that day of wrath, shall be cut off from all comfort and joy. Most of the prophets foretell the same final victory of the church of God over all that oppose it. To the wicked it will be a terrible day, but to the righteous it will be a joyful day. What cause have those who possess an interest in Christ, to glory in their Strength…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13God would defeat the nations completely. He would judge them like a sickle that cuts down grain at harvest time. He would also judge them like workers who crush grapes in a winepress until nothing remains (see Isaiah 63:2–3; Revelation 14:14–20).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. Direction to the ministers of vengeance to execute God's wrath, as the enemy's wickedness is come to its full maturity. God does not cut off the wicked at once, but waits till their guilt is at its full (so as to the Amorites' iniquity, Ge 15:16), to show forth His own long-suffering, and the justice of their doom who have so long abused it (Mt 13:27-30, 38, 40; Re 14:15-19). For the image of a harvest to be threshed, compare Jr 51:33; and a…Read the comment

Topics related to Joel 3:13

• Harvest
• Joel
• Sickle
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Flow
• Harvest
• Hope
• Sickle
• Wake
• Winepress
• Eschatology of the Old Testament
• Get; Getting
• Grecians; Greeks
• Joel (2)

Commentaries on Joel 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings