12 But (A)they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,
    that (B)he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.

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For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

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11 (A)For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare[a] and not for evil, (B)to give you a future and a hope.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 29:11 Or peace

33 Oh, the depth of the riches and (A)wisdom and knowledge of God! (B)How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

34 “For (C)who has known the mind of the Lord,
    or (D)who has been his counselor?”

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17 His (A)winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to (B)gather the wheat into his barn, (C)but the chaff he will burn with (D)unquenchable fire.”

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The Coming Day of the Lord

14 Behold, (A)a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For (B)I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and (C)the city shall be taken (D)and the houses plundered (E)and the women raped. (F)Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. (G)Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.

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12 Let the nations stir themselves up
    and come up to (A)the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
(B)for there I will sit to judge
    all the surrounding nations.

13 (C)Put in the sickle,
    (D)for the harvest is ripe.
(E)Go in, tread,
    (F)for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
    for their evil is great.

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The Harvest of the Earth

14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one (A)like a son of man, (B)with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 And another angel (C)came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, (D)“Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for (E)the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.” 16 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.

17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 And another angel came out from the altar, (F)the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, (G)for its grapes are ripe.” 19 So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great (H)winepress of the wrath of God. 20 And (I)the winepress was trodden (J)outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as (K)a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 14:20 About 184 miles; a stadion was about 607 feet or 185 meters

10 O (A)my threshed and winnowed one,
    what I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel, I announce to you.

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