Micah 7:1 BSB — MannaFest

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

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ASV

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desireth the first-ripe fig.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Woe - o is me! for I am, as when they have gathered the summer fruits , as the grape-gleanings of the vintage “The vineyard of the Lord of hosts,” Isaiah said at the same time, “is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plants” Isa 5:7. Isaiah said, brought forth wild grapes; Micah, that there are but gleanings, few and poor.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 945: “Ripe Fruit” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1870)

THE nation of Israel had fallen into so sad and backsliding a condition—it was not like a vine covered with fruit, but like a vineyard after the whole vintage has been gathered—there was not to be found a single cluster. Not one righteous man could be found, not one to be trusted or found faithful to God. The whole state had become like a field that has been closely reaped, in which nothing remains but the stubble—like a vineyard that has been completely stripped, in which there remains no vestige of fruit.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I am as when, &c.--It is the same with me as with one seeking fruits after the harvest, grapes after the vintage. "There is not a cluster" to be found: no "first-ripe fruit" (or "early fig"; see on Isa 28:4) which "my soul desireth" [MAURER].

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַ֣לְלַי	'A.lai	woe!	H480 →
לִ֗י	Li	to me
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
הָיִ֙יתִי֙	ha.Yi.ti	I have become	H1961 →
כְּאָסְפֵּי־	ke.'a.se.pei-	like gathering<s> of	H625 →
קַ֔יִץ	Ka.yitz	summer fruit	H7019 →
כְּעֹלְלֹ֖ת	ke.'o.le.Lot	like gleanings of	H5955 →
בָּצִ֑יר	ba.Tzir	[the] grape harvest	H1210 →
אֵין־	'ein-	there not	H369 →
אֶשְׁכּ֣וֹל	'esh.Kol	[is] a cluster of grapes	H811 →
לֶאֱכ֔וֹל	le.'e.Khol	to eat	H398 →
בִּכּוּרָ֖ה	bi.ku.Rah	early fig[s]	H1063 →
אִוְּתָ֥ה	'i.ve.Tah	it craves	H183 →
נַפְשִֽׁי׃	naf.Shi	appetite my	H5315 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 17:6
Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
leads to
- Isaiah 24:13
  So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
- Deuteronomy 4:27
  Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- Obadiah 1:5
  “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
Through
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so…
leads to
- Jeremiah 11:13
  Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
- Numbers 25:1–18
  While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
- Hosea 4:14
  I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people…
Through
Isaiah 28:4
The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand…
leads to
- Nahum 3:12
  All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
Through
Isaiah 24:13
So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
leads to
- Isaiah 1:9
  Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Micah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Micah