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Micah 7:1

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.

KJV

Væ mihi, quia factus sum sicut qui colligit in autumno racemos vindemiæ ! non est botrus ad comedendum, præcoquas ficus desideravit anima mea.

Vulgate

Οἴμοι ὅτι ἐγενήθην ὡς συνάγων καλάμην ἐν ἀμήτῳ καὶ ὡς ἐπιφυλλίδα ἐν τρυγήτῳ, οὐχ ὑπάρχοντος βότρυος τοῦ φαγεῖν τὰ πρωτόγονα. οἴμοι ψυχή,

LXX

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.

ASV

אַ֣לְלַי לִ֗/י כִּ֤י הָיִ֨יתִי֙ כְּ/אָסְפֵּי קַ֔יִץ כְּ/עֹלְלֹ֖ת בָּצִ֑יר אֵין אֶשְׁכּ֣וֹל לֶ/אֱכ֔וֹל בִּכּוּרָ֖ה אִוְּתָ֥ה נַפְשִֽׁ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֥ין
'yn
noun · 787×
אֶשְׁכּ֔וֹל
'shkvl
noun · 9×
אַלְלַ֬י
'lly
particle · 2×
אֹ֖סֶף
'sp
noun · 3×
בִכּוּרָ֤ה
bkvrh
noun · 2×
בָצִֽיר
btsyr
noun · 7×
י
y
noun · 752×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
verb · 811×
עֽוֹלֵלֹת֙
'vllt
noun · 6×
קַ֖יִץ
qyts
noun · 20×
תְּאַוֶּ֖ה
t'vh
verb · 28×

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. What I have often said, I will now say, that Christ looks not so much to His own honor as to our salvation; not how He may utter some sublime saying, but how something able to draw us to Him. On which account His sublime and mighty sayings are few, and those also hidden, but the humble and lowly are many, and abound through His discourses. For since by these men were the rat…
1. By faith (he says) Noah being warned of God. As the Son of God, speaking of His own coming, said, In the days of Noah they married and were given in marriage Luke 17:26-27, therefore the Apostle also recalled to their mind an appropriate image. For the example of Enoch, was an example only of Faith; that of Noah, on the other hand, of unbelief also. And this is a complete co…

Cross-references

  • Amos 8:2 — And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
  • Exod 22:29 — Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
  • Hab 1:3 — Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
  • Hos 9:10 — I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abom
  • Hos 9:10 — I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abom
  • Isa 17:6 — Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD
  • Isa 24:13 — When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
  • Isa 28:4 — And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his ha
  • Isa 28:4 — And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his ha
  • Jer 5:1 — Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth;
  • Jer 24:2 — One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
  • Jer 40:10 — As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities t
  • Num 13:20 — And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes
  • Ps 12:1 — Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.