Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
⛓ Read Micah 7 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'There is no cluster to eat; my soul desires the first-ripe fig' voices the same disappointed search for fruit on the fig tree as an image of a faithless people. Medium Volume; recurrence of the fruitless-fig motif across the prophets supports the echo.
Medium confidenceThe prophet's lament 'there is no cluster to eat; my soul desired the firstripe fig' supplies the disappointed seeking of early fruit and finding none, a precise match for Jesus hungering and finding only leaves. The coherence is strong with Micah's portrait of a fruitless, faithless people awaiting judgment.
Medium confidence'There is no cluster to eat; my soul desired the first-ripe fig' — the prophet finding no fruit on Israel, mirroring Jesus hungry and 'finding nothing on it but leaves' (21:19).
Medium confidence