LEES, Fæces. To drink up the Cup of God’s Wrath even to the Lees. To drink the whole Cup to the Bottom. We frequently meet with this Expression in the Scripture. See Psalm lxxv. 9. Isaiah li. 17. Ezek. xxiii. 34. The Rabbins say, that Zedekiah, the last King of Judah, drunk the Lees of all the foregoing Ages.
The Lees of the People, signifies the vilest and most contemptible Part of them: The Lees of Israel shall return from Captivity, Is. xlix. 6, 7. Zeph. i. 12.and be converted to the Lord. God threatens by Zephaniah, to visit those who are settled on their Lees, defixos in fæcibus suis, hardened in their Sins.