Isaia 56:12

12 "Venite", dicono, "io andrò a cercare del vino, e c’inebrieremo di bevande forti! E il giorno di domani sarà come questo, anzi sarà più grandioso ancora!"

Isaia 56:12 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 56:12

Come ye, say they
Either to their fellow bishops and priests, when got together, jovially carousing; or to the common people, encouraging them in luxury and intemperance: I will fetch wine;
out of his cellar, having good store of it, and that of the best, hence called "priests' wine"; and so, at Paris and Louvain, the Popish priests called their wine "vinum theologicum": and we will fill ourselves with strong drink;
fill their bellies and skins full of it till drunken with it; the drunkenness of priests in Popish counties is notorious, which seems here to be taxed and prophesied of: for tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant;
the morrow shall be as good, and merry, and jovial a day as this, and better; and we shall have as much wine and strong drink to drink, or more; this they say to encourage their companions to drink, and not spare, and to put away the evil day far from them. The Targum is,

``saying, come, let us take wine, and be inebriated with old wine; and our dinner tomorrow shall be better than today, large, very large.''

Isaia 56:12 In-Context

10 I guardiani d’Israele son tutti ciechi, senza intelligenza; son tutti de’ cani muti, incapaci d’abbaiare; sognano, stanno sdraiati, amano sonnecchiare.

11 Son cani ingordi, che non sanno cosa sia l’esser satolli; son dei pastori che non capiscono nulla; son tutti vòlti alla loro propria via, ognuno mira al proprio interesse, dal primo all’ultimo.

12 "Venite", dicono, "io andrò a cercare del vino, e c’inebrieremo di bevande forti! E il giorno di domani sarà come questo, anzi sarà più grandioso ancora!"