Isaiah 22:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Thou art full of stirs; or, thou who wast full of stirs, or noises, to wit, of joyful shouts, as the following words limit it, and as this word is used, Malachi 4:7, though elsewhere it be taken for doleful cries. Tumultuous; or, streperous; full of noise and clamour, through revelling and jollity. See Proverbs 20:1 Malachi 9:15. Not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle, but either by famine or pestilence in the siege, as many died, Jeremiah 14:18, Jeremiah 38:2, or in their flight, as others were; both which were inglorious kinds of death.

Isaiah 22:2

2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.