And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
Parallel translations
- WEB The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.
- KJV And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
- NKJV And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses’ bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs.
- NASB And the wine press was trampled outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses’ bridles, for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
- NLT The grapes were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress in a stream about 180 miles long and as high as a horse’s bridle.
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The winepress is trodden outside the city, releasing a vast flood of blood. The picture conveys the immense and thorough severity of God's judgment.
Overview
Trodden 'outside the city,' the winepress yields blood as high as horses' bridles over a great distance, a deliberately overwhelming, symbolic image of total judgment. The sweeping scale stresses that no evil escapes God's reckoning. For believers, the terrible imagery is also reassurance that the Lord will fully vindicate righteousness.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Lam 1:15The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.
- Heb 13:11–12Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
- Rev 19:14–21The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses.
- Isa 63:1–3Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
- Isa 66:24“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”
- Rev 11:8Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.
- Ezek 39:17–21And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
- Isa 34:5–7When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
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