Micah 6:15

"Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink the wine."

This is a continuation of the thought of Micah 6:14. Scoggin, as so many others, discerned that the military conquest about to befall Israel would be the means of causing all of the dire things promised in these verses.

"The prophet indicated by the language of this verse that the scourge, the enemy, would make rather short work of decimating Jerusalem. It would happen in those few months between planting time and harvest. They would not be able to reap the crops which they had planted."[29]

What might have seemed to be almost impossible to the proud and arrogant cities of rebellious Israel would not require any special trouble at all for God to execute upon them. One quick, disastrous siege; and all would come to pass in a single summer!