harvest time
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2And he said to them: “Certainly the harvest is great, but the workers are few. Therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers into his harvest.
35Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest arrives?’ Behold, I say to you: Lift up your eyes and look at the countryside; for it is already ripe for the harvest.
30Permit both to grow until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest, I will say to the reapers: Gather first the weeds, and bind them into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather into my storehouse.’ ”
9And so, let us not be deficient in doing good. For in due time, we shall reap without fail.
7Therefore, be patient, brothers, until the advent of the Lord. Consider that the farmer anticipates the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently, until he receives the early and the late rains.
37Then he said to his disciples: “The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few.
9Honor the Lord with your substance, and give to him from the first of all your fruits,
37Responding, he said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of man. 38Now the field is the world. And the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom. But the weeds are the sons of wickedness. 39So the enemy who sowed them is the devil. And truly, the harvest is the consummation of the age; while the reapers are the Angels. 40Therefore, just as weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the consummation of the age. 41The Son of man shall send out his Angels, and they shall gather from his kingdom all who lead astray and those who work iniquity. 42And he shall cast them into the furnace of fire, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
37Then he said to his disciples: “The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few. 38Therefore, petition the Lord of the harvest, so that he may sent out laborers to his harvest.”
14And I saw, and behold, a white cloud. And upon the cloud was one sitting, resembling a son of man, having a crown of gold on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15And another Angel went forth from the temple, crying out in a great voice to the one sitting upon the cloud: “Send out your sickle and reap! For the hour of reaping has arrived, because the harvest of the earth has ripened.” 16And the one who was sitting upon the cloud sent out his sickle to the earth, and the earth was reaped.
1A Psalm of Confession. 2Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. Serve the Lord with rejoicing. Enter into his sight in exultation. 3Know that the Lord himself is God. He made us, and we ourselves did not. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. 4Enter his gates with confession, his courts with hymns, and acknowledge him. Praise his name. 5For the Lord is sweet, his mercy is in eternity, and his truth is from generation to generation.
16for it is the solemnity of the harvest of the first-fruits of your work, of whatever you have sown in the field. Likewise, it is a solemnity at the end of the season, when you will have gathered in all your crops from the field.