Psalm 129:7 {128:7}
Good News Translation
no one gathers it up or carries it away in bundles.

New Revised Standard Version
with which reapers do not fill their hands or binders of sheaves their arms,

Contemporary English Version
Don't let them be like wheat gathered in bundles.

New American Bible
Never to fill the reaper’s hands, nor the arms of the binders of sheaves,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.

he that bindeth

Psalm 126:6 Going they went and wept, casting their seeds. [7] But coming they shall come with joyfulness, carrying their sheaves.

Isaiah 17:10,11 Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants, and shalt sow strange seed. . . .

Hosea 8:7 For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.

Galatians 6:8 For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

Context
The Cords of the Wicked
6Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up: 7Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.8And they that passed by have not said: The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.…
Cross References
Psalm 79:12
And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Joel 2:5
They shall leap like the noise of chariots upon the tops of mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, as a strong people prepared to battle.

Psalm 129:6
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