“The reapers will come, but they fill not their sheaves from these. For the reapers will come, and will gather the wheat into the barn, and will bind the tares together, and cast them into the fire. Thus also is the grass of the house tops cleared off, and whatever is plucked from it, is thrown into the fire; because i…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 129
Original
7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
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In context
5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
— Psalms 129:7 —
8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.