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Micah 7

Mic. 7:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Woe
'allay (Hebrew #480)
alas!
KJV usage: woe.
Pronounce: al-le-lah'ee
Origin: by reduplication from 421
is me! for I am as βwhen they have gathered
'oceph (Hebrew #625)
a collection (of fruits)
KJV usage: gathering.
Pronounce: o'-sef
Origin: from 622
the summer fruits
qayits (Hebrew #7019)
harvest (as the crop), whether the product (grain or fruit) or the (dry) season
KJV usage: summer (fruit, house).
Pronounce: kah'-yits
Origin: from 6972
, as the grapegleanings
`olelah (Hebrew #5955)
only in plural gleanings; by extens. gleaning-time
KJV usage: (gleaning) (of the) grapes, grapegleanings.
Pronounce: o-lay-law'
Origin: feminine active participle of 5953
z of the vintage
batsiyr (Hebrew #1210)
clipped, i.e. the grape crop
KJV usage: vintage.
Pronounce: baw-tseer'
Origin: from 1219
: there is no cluster
'eshkowl (Hebrew #811)
probably prolonged from 810; a bunch of grapes or other fruit
KJV usage: cluster (of grapes).
Pronounce: esh-kole'
Origin: or meshkol {esh-kole'}
to eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
: my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
desired
'avah (Hebrew #183)
to wish for
KJV usage: covet, (greatly) desire, be desirous, long, lust (after).
Pronounce: aw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
the firstripe fruit
bikkuwrah (Hebrew #1063)
the early fig
KJV usage: firstripe (fruit).
Pronounce: bik-koo-raw'
Origin: feminine of 1061
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the gathering of the summer.
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Hos. 9:10• 10I 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 Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. (Hos. 9:10)

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Soul; Spirit,
Summer,
Vintage,
Woe

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-2:  The church, complaining of her small number,
3-4:  and the general corruption,
5-7:  puts her confidence not in man, but in God.
8-13:  She triumphs over her enemies.
14:  She prays to God.
15-17:  God comforts her by promises of confusion to her enemies;
18-20:  and by his mercies.
woe.
Psa. 120:5• 5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! (Psa. 120:5)
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Isa. 6:5• 5Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. (Isa. 6:5)
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Isa. 24:16• 16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. (Isa. 24:16)
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Jer. 4:31• 31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers. (Jer. 4:31)
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Jer. 15:10• 10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. (Jer. 15:10)
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Jer. 45:3• 3Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. (Jer. 45:3)
when they have gathered the summer fruits.
Heb. thegatherings of summer.
as.
Isa. 17:6• 6Yet 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 God of Israel. (Isa. 17:6)
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Isa. 24:13• 13When 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. 24:13)
desired.
Isa. 28:4• 4And 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 hand he eateth it up. (Isa. 28:4)
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Hos. 9:10• 10I 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 Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. (Hos. 9:10)
• Then the prophet takes the place of intercession..... It is a plaint of the prophet which passes at length into a prayer. (“Micah 7” by W. Kelly)
• As a result of a deep exercise of soul, the remnant will pour out their hearts to the Lord in a penitential prayer (chap. 7:1-10). (“The Prophecies of Micah” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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; there is no early fruit which my soul desiredf.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "my soul desired an early fig."