My bowels considered as the seat of profound emotion. Cp. Jeremiah 31:20; Isaiah 16:11; Isaiah 63:15; Ca. Jeremiah 5:4 (R.V. mg.).

I am pained decidedly to be preferred to mg. I will wait patiently.

at my very heart O the walls of my heart! a separate exclamation. The "walls" are the sides of the cavity of the heart or the chest, against which it seems to beat. The prophet is speaking to some extent as a representative of the people.

is disquieted The word in the Hebrew denotes tumultuous movement, pain, and the expression of it in sound.

thou hast heard, O my soul better, as mg. (with different vocalisation in the Hebrew) my soul heareth. So LXX, Du. and Co. omit "my soul," and read, with a very slight addition to the Hebrew verb, I hear.

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