Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

But the dregs

Bible References

For in

Psalm 11:6

Upon the wicked (godless) He will rain coals of fire;
Fire and brimstone and a dreadful scorching wind will be the portion of their cup [of doom].
Psalm 60:3

You have made Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger and fall.
Job 21:20

“Let his own eyes see his destruction,
And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Isaiah 51:17

Wake yourself up! Wake yourself up! Stand up, O Jerusalem,
You who have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of His wrath,
You who have drunk the cup of staggering and intoxication to the dregs [leaving only sediment].
Jeremiah 25:15
For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
Revelation 14:9
Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “Whoever worships the beast and his image and receives the mark [of the beast] on his forehead or on his hand,
Revelation 16:19
The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And God kept in mind Babylon the great, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce and furious wrath.

It is full

Proverbs 23:30

Those who linger long over wine,
Those who go to taste mixed wine.
Isaiah 5:22

Woe (judgment is coming) to those who are heroes at drinking wine
And men of strength in mixing intoxicating drinks,

But the dregs

Psalm 73:10

Therefore his people return to this place,
And waters of abundance [offered by the irreverent] are [blindly] drunk by them.