Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
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Gill's Exposition
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped,.... Men, in times of mourning, used to pluck off the hairs of their head till they made them bald, and shaved their beards; which, as Kimchi…
Barnes' Notes
Like pipes - A wind instrument, used at funerals Mat 9:23. The riches that he hath gotten - literally, “that which remains over, a superfluity.”
The destruction is here further prophesied of very largely and with a great copiousness and variety of expression, and very pathetically and in moving language, designed not only to awaken them by a…
Cambridge Bible
soundeth for Moab like pipes Their use was connected with funerals, so that the word is appropriate as expressing mourning. Isaiah's word is "an harp" (Jer 16:11).
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