What Does Isaiah 56:12 Mean in the King James?

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.

Isaiah 56:12 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The intoxicated voice mistakes an ever-larger appetite for an ever-richer tomorrow.

THE MEANING

When appetite speaks in you, it promises that tomorrow will repeat today with more. The verse exposes how desire can call its own escalation abundance while its measure is clouded by strong drink.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

More consumption guarantees a fuller tomorrow.

THE ROOT

שֵׁכָר

shekhar

GROWS FROM

שכר

The root ⁨שכר⁩ (sh-k-r) means to be or become drunk, to be intoxicated.

⁨שֵׁכָר⁩ (shekhar, strong drink) names the drink through the state it brings. Its root reveals the intoxication behind the promise of “much more”: a dulled measure treats tomorrow’s excess as abundance.

ALSO GROWS

shakhar: To become intoxicated.

שָׁכַר

The same root names the state behind the speakers’ confident forecast.

shikkor: A person in an intoxicated state.

שִׁכּוֹר

This branch makes clear that the promise of a greater tomorrow comes from a voice whose measure is clouded.

THE PATTERN

When desire governs, tomorrow becomes a story that authorizes what the self wants today.

And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

Isaiah 22:13 · KJVThe speakers use tomorrow’s expected death to justify feasting today, making the future serve present appetite.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Luke 12:19 · KJVThe rich man imagines years of stored abundance so he can authorize ease and consumption now.

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

James 4:13 · KJVThe planners speak of tomorrow’s travel and profit as settled facts, making the future a possession of present intention.

THE THREAD

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

James 4:14 · KJV

Isaiah’s voice treats tomorrow as today’s guaranteed enlargement; James names what that certainty cannot see. The vapor image exposes “much more” as the speaker’s intoxicated forecast, not secure knowledge.

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