When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled. So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why are your faces downcast today?” They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.”
So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream there was a vine before me, and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes. Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.” Then Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer. Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house. For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”
Comment: If you remember, Joseph had dreams as a young man. And so far the interpretations which were read of them haven’t completely come true – although he does hold a higher position than any of his brothers or his father. His mother has died. Nevertheless he is confident enough to suggest that these other two prisoners might share their dreams with him. His statement/question ‘Do not interpretations belong to God?’ seems to infer that he knows that God will use him to interpret. So the dream is told, and the interpretation given. We’ll need to wait and see if it gets fulfilled but he is confident enough that it will be that he asks the cup-bearer’s help when his cup-bearing position is restored in a few days!
Prayer: Please give me patience as I wait for answers to my prayers.
As I read it! 