Like pipes – A wind instrument, used at funerals (Matthew 9:23).

The riches that he has acquired – literally, “tha…

Mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes ... —The words reproduce Isaiah 16:11. His heart becomes, as it were, musical …

Here the Prophet, as has been stated before, does not mourn the calamity of the people of Moab. Instead, he assumes the character of others so that…

Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes That are sounded on mournful occasions, as at funerals, and the like; …