John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:1
Woe is me !.... Alas for me unhappy man that I am, to live in such an age, and among such a people, as I do! this the prophet says in his own name, or in the name of the church and people of God in his time; so Isaiah, who was contemporary with him, Isaiah 6:5 ; see also Psalm 120:5 ; for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage ; when there are only an apple or a pear or two, or such sort of fruit, and such a quantity of it left on the... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 7:1-6
This is such a description of bad times as, some think, could scarcely agree to the times of Hezekiah, when this prophet prophesied; and therefore they rather take it as a prediction of what should be in the reign of Manasseh. But we may rather suppose it to be in the reign of Ahaz (and in that reign he prophesied, Mic. 1:1) or in the beginning of Hezekiah's time, before the reformation he was instrumental in; nay, in the best of his days, and when he had done his best to purge out... read more