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Portion of the cup

Here’s what it means

A person’s assigned experience, destiny, blessing, suffering, or judgment is pictured as the drink given to him.

Why the Bible says it this way

An idiom is a familiar phrase whose meaning comes from the whole expression, not from reading each word by itself.

A helpful detail: The cup may be favorable or terrible; the contents are defined by the passage.

Where it appears