Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
Parallel translations
- WEB You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
- BSB You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
- NKJV You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.
- NASB ‘You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, A cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.
- NLT Drunkenness and anguish will fill you, for your cup is filled to the brim with distress and desolation, the same cup your sister Samaria drank.
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Quick answer
Drinking this cup will fill Judah with drunkenness, sorrow, astonishment, and desolation, just as it did Samaria. It pictures judgment as overwhelming and stupefying.
Overview
The cup brings not mere sorrow but a disorienting horror, 'the cup of astonishment and desolation.' Like a person overcome with strong drink, Judah will reel under the devastation of conquest and exile. The shared 'cup of your sister Samaria' confirms the equivalence of their guilt and their doom.
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Cross-references · 5
- Jer 25:27Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
- Isa 51:17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
- Jer 25:15–16For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
- Isa 51:22Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
- Hab 2:16Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
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