Woe 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 ho…

Woe is me! —Micah gives here a fearful picture of the demoralised state of society in Judah which had called down the vengeance of…

It is a terrible thing for a good man to find good men growing very scarce, and to see wicked men becoming more wicked than ever. It makes him feel…

The meaning of the first verse is somewhat doubtful: some refer what the Prophet says to punishment, and others to the wickedness of the people. Th…

Woe is me ! &c.] Alas for me unhappy man that I am, to live in such an age, and among such a people, as I do!

The prophet laments that he lived among a people swiftly ripening for ruin, a situation in which many good people would suffer. People found no com…