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.
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. 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 until their guilt is at its full (so as to the Amorites' iniquity, Genesis 15:16), to show forth His own long- suffering, and the justice of their doom who have so long abused it (Matthew 13:27-30; Matthew 13:38; Matthew 13:40, "As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire (at the harvest); so shall it be in the end of this world;" Revelation 14:15-19). For the image of a harvest to be threshed, cf. Jeremiah 51:33; and a wine-press of vengeance to be trodden by Christ at His second coming, Isaiah 63:3; Lamentations 1:15.