Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
Ver. 11. Wherefore my bowels shall sound a like an harp for Moab.] The "elect of God, holy and beloved, have bowels of mercy, tenderness, and kindness" toward their very enemies also, Col 3:12 whom they do oft pity more than they pity themselves, as Habakkuk did the Chaldeans' calamity, Isa 3:16 and as Daniel did Nebuchadnezzar's downfall. Dan 4:19 Sicut cithara plectro tacta dat sonitum in funere funereum, As they have mournful music at funerals; Jeremiah 9:17 ; Jeremiah 9:20 Mat 9:23 or as the strings of a shawm sound heavily, so do my heart strings for miserable Moab. In a harp, if one string be touched, all the rest sound; so it should be with us in regard of fellow feeling. We should feel others' hard cords through our soft beds.
a Ego ex intimis visceribus meis conturbatus. - Jun.