Sound
Sound
sound: In Isa 63:15 the King James Version has the sounding of thy bowels, a painfully literal translation of hamon meeykha, with the similar phrase, my bowels shall sound like an harp, in Isa 16:11 (compare Jer 48:36). The intestines were considered a seat of emotion, and at times of great excitement were thought (in poetry, at least) to become tense and to give forth a musical sound. The Revised Version (British and American) (following the King James Version in Jer 48:36) substitutes heart for bowels in Isa 16:11, thus obscuring the figure but preserving the sense. In Isa 63:15 the Revised Version (British and American) paraphrases the yearning of thy heart (the English Revised Version bowels), a needless change from Isa 16:11. See also BATH KOL; SOLEMN, SOLEMNITY.