I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”
Parallel translations
- WEB I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”
- KJV And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
- NKJV I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, Made them drunk in My fury, And brought down their strength to the earth.”
- NASB “I trampled down the peoples in My anger And made them drunk with My wrath, And I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”
- NLT I crushed the nations in my anger and made them stagger and fall to the ground, spilling their blood upon the earth.”
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Quick answer
God treads down the nations in His anger and pours out their lifeblood. It matters because it portrays the certainty and severity of God's judgment on persistent evil.
Overview
The winepress imagery concludes with the full execution of judgment, sobering in its finality. While such language is difficult, it affirms that God will not leave wickedness unpunished forever. The New Testament holds together God's patience now (2 Peter 3:9) with His coming righteous judgment (Revelation 19:15), so that mercy in Christ is to be received before that day.
Cross-references & the web
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- Rev 16:19The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.
- Rev 14:10he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
- Isa 49:26I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- Ps 60:3You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
- Isa 51:21–23Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.
- Jer 25:26–27all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.
- Jer 25:16–17And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
- Isa 29:9Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.
- Job 21:20Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
- Isa 63:2–3Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
- Isa 26:5–6For He has humbled those who dwell on high; He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.
- Rev 18:21Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.
- Rev 16:6For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”
- Ps 75:8For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.
- Rev 18:3–6All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
- Isa 25:10–12For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
- Lam 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
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