And another angel went forth out of the temple, crying with a great voice to him sitting upon the cloud, Send thy sickle, and reap: for the hour has come to thee to reap; for the earth's harvest was dried up.

The harvest

For thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel: the daughter of Babel is as a threshing-floor, the time of her treading; yet a little while and the time of harvest coming to her.

Also, O Judah, he set a harvest for thee in my turning back the captivity of my people.

And the enemy having sowed them is the devil; and the harvest is the end of time; and the reapers are the messengers.

For the press

I trod the wine-press alone; and from the people not a man with me: and I will tread them down in my wrath, and I will trample them in mine anger, and their juice shall be sprinkled upon my garment, and I will stain all my vestment

Jehovah contemned all my mighty ones in my midst: he called an appointment upon me to break my chosen ones: Jehovah trod the wine-press to the virgin, the daughter of Judah.

And another angel came forth out of the temple which in heaven, the same also having a sharp sickle.

For their

And the men of Sodom were evil and sinful before Jehovah exceedingly.

And the fourth generation they shall turn back hither: for the crime of the Amorite has not been completed till now.

And Jehovah will say, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah became great, and because their sin was exceedingly heavy,

General references

And the threshing-floors were filled with grain, and the wine-vats overflowed with new wine and new oil.