Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
fetch wine—language of the national teachers challenging one another to drink. BARNES translates, "I will take another cup" (Isaiah 5:11).
to-morrow, etc.—Their self-indulgence was habitual and intentional: not merely they drink, but they mean to continue so.
In the midst of the excesses of the unfaithful watchmen (Isaiah 56:10-12), most of the few that are godly perish: partly by vexation at the prevailing ungodliness; partly by violent death in persecution: prophetical of the persecuting times of Manasseh, before God's judgments in causing the captivity in Babylon; and again those in the last age of the Church, before the final judgments on the apostasy (II Kings 21:16; Matthew 23:29-35, Matthew 23:37; Revelation 11:17). The Hebrew for "perisheth," and "is taken away," expresses a violent death (Micah 7:2).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 56:12:
Isaiah 22:2
Isaiah 28:7
Isaiah 56:1
Isaiah 56:9
Isaiah 56:12
Isaiah 57:1
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