Joel 3:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Put ye — Ye executioners of divine vengeance: begin to reap, cut down sinners ripe for judgment; let Tiglath Pilneser and his soldiers cut down Syria and its king, for their violence against my people. Let Cyaxares and his armies cut down Assyria. Let Nebuchadnezzar cut down Moab, Ammon, mount Seir, Egypt, Tyre, Zidon and the Philistines; after this let Cyrus reap down the ripened Babylonians, and Alexander the Medes and Persians. And let the divided Grecian captains cut down one another, 'till the Romans cut them down. And when this is done God will have mighty ones still to cut down his enemies, 'till the final judgment wherein they all shall for ever be destroyed. Get you down — In another metaphor the prophet declares the cutting off the church's enemies. The press — As the grapes in the press are trod, so the enemies of God's people, are to be trodden in the wine — press of God's displeasure. Overflow — The blood of slaughtered men runs as wine prest out, in greater abundance than the vats can hold. Is great — The violence and all manner of sins of these kingdoms is grown exceeding great.