"Be sure of this, the time is coming," says the Lord, "when the plowman will catch up to the reaper and the one who stomps the grapes will overtake the planter. Juice will run down the slopes, it will flow down all the hillsides.

The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest."

He said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.

The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

For in this instance the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps.'

Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.