Micah 7:1

Woe is me! For I am become like a gathering of kayitz (summer fruit), 1 like a gleaning of the vintage; 1 there is no grape cluster to eat, 1 none of the early figs my nefesh desired. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

In Context

2The chasid has disappeared from ha'aretz; 1 and there is none yashar (upright, straight) among men; 1 they all lie in wait for dahm; 1 they hunt every man his brother with a net. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 18:13And whatsoever is Bikkurim in the land, which they shall bring unto Hashem, shall be thine; every one that is tahor in thine Bais shall eat of it.

Proverbs 20:6Rav adam will proclaim every one his own chesed, 1 but an ish emunim (faithful man, loyal man) who can find one? 1

Isaiah 17:6Yet a remnant of gleanings shall be left in it, 1 as the beating of a zayit (olive tree), 1 two or three olives in the rosh of the uppermost olive branch, 1 four or five in the poriyyah (fruitful) olive branches thereof, 1 saith Hashem Elohei Yisroel.

Isaiah 24:16From the uttermost part of Ha'Aretz have we heard zemirot (songs), 1 even glory to the Tzaddik (Righteous One). 1 But I said, My wasting away, 1 my wasting away, Oy li (woe unto me)! 1 The bogedim (traitors) have dealt treacherously; 1 the bogedim have dealt very treacherously. 1

Jeremiah 4:31For I have heard a kol (outcry) like that of a woman in travail, 1 and in labor pain like that of her that bringeth forth her first child, 1 the voice of Bat Tziyon, that waileth, 1 that stretcheth out her hands, saying: 1 Oy nah li (Woe is me now)! For my nefesh 1 is weary because of murderers.

Jeremiah 15:10Oy li, immi, that thou bore me, an ish riv (a man of strife) and an ish madon (a man of contention) to kol ha'aretz (the whole land)! I have neither lent, neither have any lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Matthew Henry on Micah 7:1

In this chapter, I. The prophet, in the name of the church, sadly laments the woeful decay of religion in the age wherein he lived, and the deluge of impiety and immorality which overwhelmed the nation, which levelled the differences, and bore down the fences, of all that is just and sacred, ver. 1-6 . II. The prophet, for the sake of the church, prescribes comforts, which may be of use at such a time, and gives counsel what to do. 1. They must have an eye to God, ver. 7 . 2. They must courageously bear up against… Read the whole commentary →

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