Verse 11
11. Wherefore my bowels An expression of deepest grief. The viscera above the diaphragm, including heart, lungs, liver, are here called “bowels.”
Shall sound like a harp Grief was capable, it was thought, of causing the heart to beat and the nerves to tremble; and such sensations were fancied to resemble low harp sounds.
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