Ezekiel 23:33

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Ezekiel 23:33 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of horror and devastation; the cup of your sister Samaria.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Thou shalt be filled with drunkennes and sorow, euen with the cup of destruction, and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup of grief, and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    With drunkenness and sorrow thou art filled, A cup of astonishment and desolation, The cup of thy sister Samaria.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    You are filled with drunkenness and sorrow, || A cup of astonishment and desolation, || The cup of your sister Samaria.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of horror and devastation; the cup of your sister Samaria.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of horror and devastation; the cup of your sister Samaria.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, the cup of thy sister Samaria;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    It will make you drunk and full of grief because it's a cup of that brings horror and destruction, the cup your sister Samaria drank from.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and appalment, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is שִׁכָּר֥וֹן drunkenness H7943 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שִׁכָּר֥וֹן drunkenness H7943 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 8 nouns

Verb forms

  • תִּמָּלֵ֑אִי Niphal · Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • כּ֚וֹס cup H3563 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 12 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 23:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
  • Jeremiah 25:27 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
  • Isaiah 51:22 Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:
  • Jeremiah 25:15–16 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
  • Habakkuk 2:16 You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 23:33 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

שִׁכָּר֥וֹן וְיָג֖וֹן תִּמָּלֵ֑אִי כּ֚וֹס שַׁמָּ֣ה וּשְׁמָמָ֔ה כּ֖וֹס אֲחוֹתֵ֥ךְ שֹׁמְרֽוֹן

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

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 23:33 Septuagint · lemma form

μέθη καί ἔκλυσις πίμπλημι καί ὁ ποτήριον ἀφανισμός ποτήριον ἀδελφή σύ σαμαρεία

And you shall be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the cup of your sister Samaria,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    הָא כְרַוְיָא וְרַוָן תִּתְמְלִין כָּס צָדוּ וְאִישְׁתֵּמָמוּ כָּס פּוּרְעֲנוּת אֲחָתִיךְ שׁוֹמְרוֹן:

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    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Ezekiel 23:33 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

Ver. 33. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow.] That dry drunkenness, ut si catapotium bibas.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Meaning, that its afflictions should be so great that they should cause them to lose their senses, and reason.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

33. and sorrow] Or, affliction.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

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.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Thy afflictions shall be as great as thou canst hold, as a vessel filled with liquor. Thou shalt stagger with sorrows, that shall intoxicate and astonish. In the verse each part explains the other, sorrow explains drunkenness, astonishment explains sorrow, desolation explains astonishment, and the cup of Samaria, elsewhere called the line of Samaria, explains all: Samaria was made a heap, Mic 1:6; so shall Jerusalem be.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

33. See Isa_51:17-23.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Yahweh continues his metaphor in which he speaks of the cities of Jerusalem and Samaria as if they were two prostitutes. (See: Metaphor)

You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow

This speaks of being very drunk and full of sorrow as if drunkenness and sorrow were things that filled her body. AT: "You will become very drunk and very sad" (See: Metaphor)

the cup of horror and devastation

"the cup that causes horror and devastation." The words "horror" and "devastation" share similar meanings here and emphasize how terrible her punishment will be. AT: "for what is in that cup causes horror and devastation" (See: Doublet)

the cup of your sister Samaria

Oholibah's sister Oholah represents Samaria. Samaria is called by it's name but still referred to as a sister. The cup is a symbol for the punishment that she received. AT: "for this is the same cup of punishment that your sister, who represents Samaria, drank" (See: Metaphor)

tear your breasts

"cut your beasts"

this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration

Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 5:11. AT: "this is what the Lord Yahweh has declared" or "this is what I, the Lord Yahweh, have declared" (See: First, Second, or Third Person)

translationWords

horror

devastate

Samaria

declare

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Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

and bewilderment [Heb. וּשְׁמָמָה] bewilderment.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shikkârôwn (“drunkenness”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “drunkenness” (shikkârôwn) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. Jeremiah 13:13 shares the word «drunkenness» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “cup” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. The verb «תִּמָּלֵ֑אִי» is Niphal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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