Micah 7:1

Woe is me! 1 I have become like the gathering of summer fruit, 1 and like the grapes that have been gleaned; 1 there is no grape cluster to eat, 1 no ripe early fig that my soul desires. 1

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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

2Faithful people have disappeared from the land; 1 there is no upright person in all mankind. 1 They all lie in wait to shed blood; 1 each one hunts his own brother with a net. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 18:13The first ripe produce of all that is in their land, which they bring to me, will be yours. Everyone who is clean in your family may eat these things.

Proverbs 20:6Many a person proclaims he is loyal, 1 but who can find one who is faithful? 1

Isaiah 17:6Gleanings will be left, however, as when the olive tree is shaken: 1 two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the highest branches of a fruitful tree—this is the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 1

Isaiah 24:16From the farthest part of the earth we have heard songs, 1 “Glory to the righteous one!” 1 But I said, “I have wasted away, I have wasted away, woe is me! 1 The treacherous have dealt treacherously; 1 yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.” 1

Jeremiah 4:31So I hear the sound of anguish, distress as in the birth of a firstborn child, the sound of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath. She spreads out her hands, 'Woe to me! I am fainting because of these murderers.'”

Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother! For you have borne me, I who am a man of controversy and argument through all the land. 1 I have not lent, nor has anyone lent to me, but they all curse me. 1

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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