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Revelation 14:16

14 And I looked and saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

15 Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest; for the crop of the earth is ripe.”

So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.

18 Still another angel, with authority over the fire, came from the altar and called out in a loud voice to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are ripe.”

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BSB
So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
KJV
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
WEB
He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
ASV
And he that sat on the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped.
DARBY
And he that sat on the cloud put his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
BLB
And the One sitting on the cloud cast His sickle on the earth, and the earth was harvested.
ÅB
Og han som satt på skyen, lot sin sigd gå over jorden, og jorden ble høstet.
OTB
Så Han som satt på skyen svingte sin sigd over jorden, og jorden ble høstet.
B1930
Og han som satt på skyen, lot sin sigd gå over jorden, og jorden blev høstet.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Matthew 16:27

    For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.

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  • Revelation 14:19

    So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.

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  • Revelation 14:14

    And I looked and saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

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  • Revelation 16:1–21

    Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”

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  • John 5:22–23

    Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

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