Dregs
DREGS
See LEES.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Dregs
(, shemnarim’, lees of wine [as everywhere rendered except in] Psalm lxxv. 8; so called from settling or being kept; , kubba’ath, Isa 2:17; Isa 2:22, means a goblet-cup merely). SEE LEES. The best wines of the East are much mixed with dregs, in the vessels in which they are preserved, so that commonly when drawn out the liquor is strained for use. It is to this condition of the wine that the Psalmist appears to refer: “He poureth out of the same; but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them” (Psa 75:8). This is probably intended to denote that the pure and clean wine should be given as a wine of blessing to the righteous, while the wicked should drink the thick and turbid residue. The punishments which God inflicts upon the wicked are compared to a cupful of fermenting wine mixed with intoxicating herbs, of which all those to whom it is given must drink the dregs or sediment. The same image occurs in several Arabian poets. Thus Taabbata Sharran says, “To those of the tribe of Hodail we gave the cup of death, whose dregs were confusion, shame, and reproach.” SEE WINE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Dregs
(Ps. 75:8; Isa. 51:17, 22), the lees of wine which settle at the bottom of the vessel.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Dregs
dregs: The sediments, lees, grounds of liquor; only in plural. In the King James Version it stands for: (1) Hebrew kubbaath, bowl, chalice, found only in Isa 51:17, Isa 51:22 : the dregs of the cup of trembling; the dregs of the cup of my fury. the Revised Version (British and American) correctly changes dregs into bowl. (2) Hebrew shemarm, sediments or dregs, especially lees of wine. The dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring (the American Standard Revised Version drain) them out and drink them (Psa 75:8), i.e. God gives to the wicked the cup of wrathful judgment, which they must drink to the last drop.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Dregs
Psa 75:8 (a) This is a picture of the bitterness of the wrath of GOD in its worst form and character. The teaching that a “loving GOD will not punish sinners” is repudiated by this statement. The wicked will suffer the punishment of GOD to the last drop.
Isa 51:17, Isa 51:22 (a) In this place the fury and the wrath of GOD have been poured out on Jerusalem to the last drop. GOD punished Israel in great wrath because they turned against Him in such a wicked and evil way.