Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab,.... Making a noise as the harp does, and a mournful one as that, when used at funerals; which it makes when it is stricken or played on with the…
Barnes' Notes
Wherefore my bowels - This is also an expression of the deep grief of the prophet in view of the calamities which were coming upon Moab. The “bowels” in the Scriptures are everywhere represented as…
Here we have, I. The sins with which Moab is charged, Isa 16:6. The prophet seems to check himself for going about to give good counsel to the Moabites, concluding they would not take the advice he…
Cambridge Bible
(Jer 48:36) my bowels shall sound like a harp omit "shall" with R.V. The poet's emotion flows forth spontaneously in the strains of the elegy. The bowelsare the seat of the more intense emotions (Job…
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