The Harvest Of The Earth (Revelation 14:14-20) New Living and Good News Translations

NEW LIVING TRANSLATION

14  Then I saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was someone like the Son of Man. He had a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.

15  Then another angel came from the Temple and shouted to the one sitting on the cloud, “Swing the sickle, for the time of harvest has come; the crop on earth is ripe.” 

16  So the one sitting on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the whole earth was harvested.

17  After that, another angel came from the Temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle. 

18  Then another angel, who had power to destroy with fire, came from the altar. He shouted to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sickle now to gather the clusters of grapes from the vines of the earth, for they are ripe for judgment.” 

19  So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and loaded the grapes into the great winepress of God’s wrath. 

20  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.

GOOD NEWS TRANSLATION

14  Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was what looked like a human being, with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 
15  Then another angel came out from the temple and cried out in a loud voice to the one who was sitting on the cloud, “Use your sickle and reap the harvest, because the time has come; the earth is ripe for the harvest!” 
16  Then the one who sat on the cloud swung his sickle on the earth, and the earth's harvest was reaped.
17  Then I saw another angel come out of the temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
18  Then another angel, who is in charge of the fire, came from the altar. He shouted in a loud voice to the angel who had the sharp sickle, “Use your sickle, and cut the grapes from the vineyard of the earth, because the grapes are ripe!” 
19  So the angel swung his sickle on the earth, cut the grapes from the vine, and threw them into the wine press of God's furious anger. 
20  The grapes were squeezed out in the wine press outside the city, and blood came out of the wine press in a flood two hundred miles long and about five feet deep.