Micah 6:15 (YLT)

Passage

Thou--thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou--thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine--and thou drinkest not wine.

Nearby Context

Micah 6:13 And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.

Micah 6:14 Thou--thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit <FI>is<Fi> in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give.

Micah 6:15 Thou--thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou--thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine--and thou drinkest not wine.

Micah 6:16 And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou--thou", "sowest", "dost", "reap", "treadest", and "olive". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou--thou" and "sowest", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 14's "Thou--thou eatest and thou art not satisfied..." into verse 16's "And kept habitually are the statutes of...", so "thou--thou" and "sowest" belong inside that flow. In Micah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thou--thou" and "sowest" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.