Thou that art full of stirs — Of tumult, of commotion, of alarm. Or, perhaps, this whole description may mean that it was formerly …

A joyous city ... —It would seem from Isaiah 32:13 that this was the characteristic on which Jerusalem, like Athens after…

Thou that art full of noises. He means that it was exceedingly populous, for where great multitudes of people are brought together, noise …

You are full of stirs
Or, "were full of stirs"; through the multitude of people walking about in it, and the vast hu…

Why is Jerusalem in such terror? Her slain men are not slain with the sword, but with famine; or, slain with fear, disheartened. Their rulers fled,…

1. The burden of the valley. Here the prophet issues a threat against those who were joined to the people of God by their position of…