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Ezekiel 23:32
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh addresses Jerusalem and Samaria through Ezekiel, pronouncing judgment immediately after declaring He will place her sister’s cup into her hand.
The words — The Hebrew כּוֹס (kos) denotes the cup of judgment, while עֲמֻקָּה (‘amukkā) literally means deep, emphasizing the overwhelming volume of the coming punishment.
The thread — This cup imagery appears in Psalm 60:3 as hardship forced upon God’s people and in Isaiah 51:17 as the cup of divine fury drained by Jerusalem.
Why it lands — The text states that shared idolatry produces shared ruin, requiring the reader to accept that divine scorn follows prolonged rebellion without excuse.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord God; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
Cross-references
- Psalms 60:3 You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
- Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger.
- Ezekiel 22:4 you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
- Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- 1 Kings 9:7 then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
- Psalms 79:3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
- Jeremiah 25:9 behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
- Jeremiah 25:15 This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
- Jeremiah 48:26 “Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.
- Lamentations 2:15 All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”