and another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary crying in a great voice to him who is sitting upon the cloud, 'Send forth thy sickle and reap, because come to thee hath the hour of reaping, because ripe hath been the harvest of the earth;'

The harvest

For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon is as a threshing-floor, The time of her threshing -- yet a little, And come hath the time of her harvest.

Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back to the captivity of My people!

and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is a full end of the age, and the reapers are messengers.

For the press

-- 'A wine-press I have trodden by myself, And of the peoples there is no one with me, And I tread them in mine anger, And I trample them in my fury, Sprinkled is their strength on my garments, And all my clothing I have polluted.

Trodden down all my mighty ones hath the Lord in my midst, He proclaimed against me an appointed time, To destroy my young men, A wine-press hath the Lord trodden, To the virgin daughter of Judah.

And another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary that is in the heaven, having -- he also -- a sharp sickle,

For their

and the men of Sodom are evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'

And Jehovah saith, 'The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah -- because great; and their sin -- because exceeding grievous:

General references

And full have been the floors with pure corn, And overflown have the presses with new wine and oil.