Ezekiel - 23:33



33 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

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Explanation and meaning of Ezekiel 23:33.

Differing Translations

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Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup of grief, and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
With drunkenness and sorrow thou art filled, A cup of astonishment and desolation, The cup of thy sister Samaria.
You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, With the cup of astonishment and appalment, With the cup of thy sister Samaria.
You will be filled with inebriation and sorrow, by the chalice of grief and sadness, by the chalice of your sister Samaria.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Thou shalt be filled with (n) drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of horror and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
(n) Meaning that it's afflictions would be so great that they would cause them to lose their senses and reason.

Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,.... Sorrow is the effect of drunkenness; these two generally go together; when a man is filled with the one, he is with the other; this expresses the greatness of the sorrow and distress of the Jews in captivity:
with the cup of astonishment and desolation; their punishment would be so great, and their condition be so desolate, that it should astonish them, and bereave them of their senses; and they should be like mad men, as their actions in the following verse show:
with the cup of thy sister Samaria; the same punishment as inflicted on the ten tribes.

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