Reference: Wine-press
Easton
Consisted of two vats or receptacles, (1) a trough (Heb gath, Gr. lenos) into which the grapes were thrown and where they were trodden upon and bruised (Isa 16:10; La 1:15; Joe 3:13); and (2) a trough or vat (Heb yekebh, Gr. hypolenion) into which the juice ran from the trough above, the gath (Ne 13:15; Job 24:11; Isa 63:2-3; Hag 2:16; Joe 2:24). Wine-presses are found in almost every part of Palestine. They are "the only sure relics we have of the old days of Israel before the Captivity. Between Hebron and Beersheba they are found on all the hill slopes; they abound in southern Judea; they are no less common in the many valleys of Carmel; and they are numerous in Galilee." The "treading of the wine-press" is emblematic of divine judgment (Isa 63:2; La 1:15; Re 14:19-20).
Illustration: Egyptian Wine-Press
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In those days, saw I in Judah - some treading winepresses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves and lading asses, moreover also wine, grapes, and figs, and every kind of burden, which they were bringing into Jerusalem on the sabbath day, - so I protested against it, as a day for them to sell provisions.
Between their walls, are they exposed to the sun, Wine-presses, they tread, and yet are thirsty;
Now shall be withdrawn rejoicing and exultation out of the garden-land, And, in the vineyards, shall be neither singing nor shouting, - Wine in the winepress, the treader, shall not tread, The vintage-shout, have I made to cease.
Wherefore is there red, on thy raiment, - And thy garments as of one treading in a wine-trough?
Wherefore is there red, on thy raiment, - And thy garments as of one treading in a wine-trough? A winepress, have I trodden, alone, And of the peoples, there was no man with me. So I trod them down in mine anger, And trampled upon then, in mine indignation, - And their life-blood besprinkled my garments, And all mine apparel, I defiled;
My Lord, hath flouted at all my magnates, in my midst, He hath called against me a host, to crush my young men, - A winepress, hath My Lord trodden, to the virgin, the daughter of Judah.
My Lord, hath flouted at all my magnates, in my midst, He hath called against me a host, to crush my young men, - A winepress, hath My Lord trodden, to the virgin, the daughter of Judah.
So shall the threshing-floors, be filled, with corn, - and the vats, overflow, with new wine and oil.
Thrust ye in the vintage knife, for, grown ripe, is the vintage, - Go in, tread down, for full is the winepress, flow over do the vats, for abundant is their wickedness.
So long were things thus, that, on coming unto a heap of twenty, then was it found to be ten, - on coming unto the vat to draw off fifty measures, then were there found to be twenty.
And the messenger, thrust in, his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine-press of the wrath of God. And the wine-press was trodden outside the city, and there came forth blood out of the wine-press, even unto the bits of the horses, at a distance of a thousand six hundred furlongs.