Harvesting the Earth and Trampling the Winepress

¹⁴ I looked, and there before me was a white cloud,^(A) and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man^[a](B) with a crown^(C) of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. ¹⁵ Then another angel came out of the temple^(D) and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle^(E) and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest^(F) of the earth is ripe.” ¹⁶ So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

¹⁷ Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.^{(G) 18} Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar^(H) and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle^(I) and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” ¹⁹ The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.^{(J) 20} They were trampled in the winepress^(K) outside the city,^(L) and blood^(M) flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.^[b]

¹³ Then I saw three impure spirits^(A) that looked like frogs;^(B) they came out of the mouth of the dragon,^(C) out of the mouth of the beast^(D) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.^{(E) 14} They are demonic spirits^(F) that perform signs,^(G) and they go out to the kings of the whole world,^(H) to gather them for the battle^(I) on the great day^(J) of God Almighty.

¹⁶ Then they gathered the kings together^(N) to the place that in Hebrew^(O) is called Armageddon.^(P)

¹⁷ The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air,^(Q) and out of the temple^(R) came a loud voice^(S) from the throne, saying, “It is done!”^{(T) 18} Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder^(U) and a severe earthquake.^(V) No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth,^(W) so tremendous was the quake. ¹⁹ The great city^(X) split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered^(Y) Babylon the Great^(Z) and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.^{(AA) 20} Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found.^{(AB) 21} From the sky huge hailstones,^(AC) each weighing about a hundred pounds,^[a] fell on people. And they cursed God^(AD) on account of the plague of hail,^(AE) because the plague was so terrible.