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dregs

Meaning of “dregs”

1. Sediment or residue remaining at the bottom of a cup. 2. By figure, the bitter remainder of a cup of judgment.

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First occurrence: Psalms 75:8

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Every verse containing “dregs”

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Psalms 75:8
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 75:8 · retained source text

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

Isaiah 51:17
¶ 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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 51:17 · retained source text

¶ Awake, awake, stand vp, O Ierusalem, which hast drunke at the hand of the LORD the cup of his furie; thou hast drunken the dregges of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

1611 marginal noteChap.52.1.

Isaiah 51:22
Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 51:22 · retained source text

Thus saith thy LORD, the LORD and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I haue taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, euen the dregges of the cup of my furie: thou shalt no more drinke it againe.

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