Verse 17
The cup of trembling - התרעלה כוס cos hattarelah , "the cup of mortal poison," veneni mortiferi . - Montan. This may also allude to the ancient custom of taking off criminals by a cup of poison. Socrates is well known to have been sentenced by the Areopagus to drink a cup of the juice of hemlock, which occasioned his death. See the note on Hebrews 2:9 , and see also Bishop Lowth's note on Isaiah 51:21 .
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