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Revelation 14:20

What does Revelation 14:20 mean?

A plain-English look at Revelation 14:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

What Revelation 14:20 means

The winepress is trodden outside the city, and the outflow is described as reaching up to horses’ bridles for a great distance—about sixteen hundred furlongs. Being outside the city suggests exclusion from the holy community and recalls judgment executed beyond sacred bounds. The staggering depth and length convey overwhelming severity and wide scope; numbers and imagery work together to communicate completeness of judgment across the land. The scene is not literal cartography but moral geography: those who reject God are removed from His city and face a judgment beyond human containment. The final picture leaves no doubt—God’s wrath against persistent evil is real, vast, and inescapable.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And the winepress was trodden without the city, and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And the winepress was trodden without the city, and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And the grapes were crushed under foot outside the town, and blood came out from them, even to the head-bands of the horses, two hundred miles.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and trodden was the wine-press outside of the city, and blood did come forth out of the wine-press--unto the bridles of the horses, a thousand, six hundred furlongs.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And the press was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the press, up to the horses' bridles, for a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

and the wine-press was trodden without the city, and blood went out of the wine-press to the bits of the horses for a thousand six hundred stadia.

Context

This verse concludes the grape-harvest vision by specifying where and to what extent the judgment flows. It completes the chapter’s arc: from the Lamb’s secure people on Zion (verses 1–5), through universal proclamations and warnings (verses 6–11), to endurance and blessing for the faithful (verses 12–13), and finally to the twin harvests (verses 14–20). The ending image sets the stage for following judgments in Revelation by fixing in the reader’s mind the certainty and severity of God’s final verdicts, even as the opening section has assured believers of their place with the Lamb.

v.19And the angel cast his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and cast it into the winepress, the great winepress, of the wrath of God.

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Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Revelation 11:8

    And their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

  • Revelation 19:14

    And the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure.

  • Isaiah 66:24

    And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

  • Isaiah 63:1

    Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

  • Lamentations 1:15

    The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.

  • Hebrews 13:11

    For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp.

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