^23:32“This is what the sovereign Lord says: “You will drink your sister’s deep and wide cup;⁴⁴ you will be scorned and derided, for it holds a great deal. ^23:33You will be overcome by⁴⁵ drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation. ^23:34You will drain it dry,⁴⁶ gnaw its pieces,⁴⁷ and tear out your breasts,⁴⁸ for I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.

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Footnotes

44 The image of a deep and wide cup suggests the degree of punishment; it will be extensive and leave the victim helpless.
45 Heb “filled with.”
46 Heb “You will drink it and drain (it).”
47 D. I. Block compares this to the idiom of “licking the plate” (Ezekiel [], 1:, n. 137). The text is difficult as the word translated “gnaw” is rare. The noun is used of the shattered pieces of pottery and so could envision a broken cup. But the Piel verb form is used in only one other place (Num 24:8), where it is a denominative from the noun “bone” and seems to mean to “break (bones).” Why it would be collocated with “sherds” is not clear. For this reason some emend the phrase to read “consume its dregs” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [], 2:) or emend the verb to read “swallow,” as if the intoxicated Oholibah breaks the cup and then eats the very sherds in an effort to get every last drop of the beverage that dampens them.
48 The severe action is more extreme than beating the breasts in anguish (Isa 32:12; Nah 2:7). It is also ironic for these are the very breasts she so blatantly offered to her lovers (vv. 3, 21).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Thus says the Lord God:

“You shall drink your sister’s cup

that is deep and large;

you shall be laughed at and held in derision,

for it contains much;

you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow.

A cup of horror and desolation,

the cup of your sister Samaria;

you shall drink it and drain it out,

and gnaw its shards,

and tear your breasts;

for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“You will drink your sister’s cup,

a cup large and deep;

it will bring scorn and derision,

for it holds so much.

You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,

the cup of ruin and desolation,

the cup of your sister Samaria.

You will drink it and drain it dry

and chew on its pieces—

and you will tear your breasts.

I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

This is what the Lord God says:

“You will drink your sister’s cup,

which is deep and wide.

You will be an object of ridicule and scorn,

for it holds so much.

You will be filled with drunkenness and grief,

with a cup of devastation and desolation,

the cup of your sister Samaria.

You will drink it and drain it;

then you will gnaw its broken pieces,

and tear your breasts.

For I have spoken.”

This is the declaration of the Lord God.

NLTNew Living Translation

“Yes, this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“You will drink from your sister’s cup of terror,

a cup that is large and deep.

It is filled to the brim

with scorn and derision.

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.

You will drain that cup of terror

to the very bottom.

Then you will smash it to pieces

and beat your breast in anguish.

I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “You will drink the deep and wide cup of your sister; you will be as laughter and as scorn; the cup holds so much! You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, for a cup of horror and desolation is the cup of your sister, Samaria. And you will drink it, and you will drain it, and its potsherds you will gnaw, and you will tear out your breasts, for I myself spoke,” declares the Lord Yahweh.

KJV 1900King 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. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

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