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Isa_16:11 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; {Jer_9:17; Jer_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.