That Bitter Cup

Jesus drank from that bitter cup

Which our Father gave to Him

To the dregs, He drank it up

Of our sins, He paid for them

It pressed Him so, that He bled

From His very pores, out it came

And the unrepentant, He said

Will, some day, have to do the same

They will have an awful view

Of their guilt and of the Atonement

And withdraw from the Lord, too

Into a state of endless torment

Christ has drunk out of bitter cup which the Father gave him: 3 Ne. 11:11 .


Mosiah 3: 23 And now I have spoken the words which the Lord God hath commanded me.

24 And thus saith the Lord: They shall stand as a bright testimony against this people, at the judgment day; whereof they shall be judged, every man according to his works, whether they be good, or whether they be evil.

25 And if they be evil they are consigned to an awful view of their own guilt and abominations, which doth cause them to shrink from the presence of the Lord into a state of misery and endless torment, from whence they can no more return; therefore they have drunk damnation to their own souls.

26 Therefore, they have drunk out of the cup of the wrath of God, which justice could no more deny unto them than it could deny that Adam should fall because of his partaking of the forbidden fruit; therefore, mercy could have claim on them no more forever.

27 And their torment is as a lake of fire and brimstone, whose flames are unquenchable, and whose smoke ascendeth up forever and ever. Thus hath the Lord commanded me. Amen.