Isaiah 16:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.

My bowels - in Scripture the seat of yearning compassion. It means the inward seat of emotion, the heart, etc. (Isaiah 63:15: cf. Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:36.)

Shall sound like an harp - as its strings vibrate when beaten with the plectrum or hand.

Isaiah 16:11

11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.