Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Come ye, (say they), I will fetch wine - language of the national teachers challenging one another to drink. Or, 'I will take (Hebrew, 'eqchaah (H3947)) wine' - i:e., another cup of wine (Isaiah 5:11).
Tomorrow shall be as this day - their self-indulgence was habitual and intentional: not merely they drink, but they mean to continue so.
Remarks: The 'keeping' of "the Sabbath from" all 'pollution' is here marked as a prominent feature of believing obedience to God. No nation or individual can maintain true piety who neglect this plain command, obligatory alike, though on somewhat different grounds, under the law and the Gospel. The spiritual temple, the Church, or house of God, is now "an house of prayer," open "for all people." As yet all nations do not belong to it. But hereafter when "the Lord God" hath gathered "the outcasts of Israel," He will also gather the other nations to Him. Meanwhile Israel has been for ages cast out as a prey to 'the beasts of the field,' the unbelieving world-powers-Babylon, Rome, and the Mohammedan oppressor. Such has been the sad result of the unfaithfulness and selfishness of her rulers. Let all in authority in church and state take warning from her history to shun those sins-indolence, covetousness, pleasure-seeking, and unfaithfulness to God-which brought upon her national ruin through the vengeance of God.