What Does Psalm 73:10 Mean in the King James?
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The cup is full, yet its fullness is already moving through the act of being drained.
THE MEANING
You see people turn back toward them, while waters from a full cup are wrung out for them. Abundance arrives through an image of pressure and extraction, so the full cup carries depletion within it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Visible abundance is proof of wholeness: the verse holds fullness together with the draining of the cup.
THE ROOT
מָצָה
matsah
GROWS FROM
מצה
To drain or draw out by sucking or squeezing.
“wrung out” in this verse is matsah. The phrase holds fullness and extraction together: the cup is full, and its contents are being squeezed out. The same root appears in images of drinking a cup down to its dregs, giving fullness the motion of depletion within it.
ALSO GROWS
yimtsu: They drain the dregs of the cup and drink them.
יִמְצוּ
The matching verb joins a cup to its last drops, sharpening the extraction inside this verse’s image of fullness.
matsit: Jerusalem has drained the dregs of the cup of trembling.
מָצִית
The same root links a full cup with the experience of drinking what remains at its bottom.
THE PATTERN
The cup of judgment is a measured portion poured out and drunk to its dregs.
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.Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:THE THREAD
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.The same verb, יִמְצוּ (yimtsu), appears as the wicked wring out and drink the cup’s dregs. That shared root lets the full cup here carry the image of contents drawn out to the last drop.
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