Enthusiastically Joel calls upon God to go and smite the enemies (put in the sickle
as in the standing wheat in the field; trample them down as you would tread grapes and so squeeze them, cf. Revelation 14:14–20; Revelation 19:15–21), for their sins are beyond all bounds. The vats are overflowing, so numerous are the crimes.
13 Saisissez la faucille, Car la moisson est mûre! Venez, foulez, Car le pressoir est plein, Les cuves regorgent! Car grande est leur méchanceté,