Holy Scripture
Micah 7:1
A church father on this verse
“Who is speaking when the prophet says, "Woe is me, soul, for I have become one as gathering straw in harvest?" For did the prophet literally "gather" or even want to "gather"? Does the prophet have a farm? Anyway, the only one who rightly gathers from what has been planted for harvest is not the prophet but the Lord a…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
1Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as one gathering grape gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!
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— Micah 7:1 —
2For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders his way aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbor:
3they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a reward, and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul: