Reference

Ezekiel 23:32

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.
30

I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

31

Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.

32

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.

33

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

34

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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Literal Fulfillment

While the imagery is vivid and concrete, the "cup" is a well-established biblical metaphor for divine judgment or suffering, suggesting a symbolic rather than strictly literal interpretation of drinking from it.

Prophetic Methods of Communication

The verse describes a future judgment using metaphorical language ("drink of thy sister's cup") and states it is a declaration from "the Lord God," but it does not describe *how* Ezekiel received this message.