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Complete Jewish Bible

Jeremiah 48:16

Mo'av's ruin is coming soon, its disaster speeds on swiftly.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Moabites;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Chemosh;   Heshbon;   Kiriathaim;   Pisgah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Madmen;   Moab, Moabites;   Obadiah, Book of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nebo;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon ammonites children of ammon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chemosh;   Near;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Moab’s calamity is near at hand;his disaster is rushing swiftly.
Hebrew Names Version
The calamity of Mo'av is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.
King James Version
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
English Standard Version
The calamity of Moab is near at hand, and his affliction hastens swiftly.
New American Standard Bible
"The disaster of Moab will soon come, And his catastrophe has hurried quickly.
New Century Version
"The end of Moab is near, and she will soon be destroyed.
Amplified Bible
"The destruction of Moab will come soon, And his disaster hurries quickly.
World English Bible
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The destruction of Moab is ready to come, and his plague hasteth fast.
Legacy Standard Bible
"The disaster of Moab will soon come,And his calamity has quickly hastened.
Berean Standard Bible
Moab's calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly.
Contemporary English Version
It won't be long now— disaster will hit Moab!
Darby Translation
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
Easy-to-Read Version
"The end of Moab is near. Moab will soon be destroyed.
George Lamsa Translation
The calamity of Moab is soon to come, and his affliction hastens fast.
Good News Translation
Moab's doom approaches; its ruin is coming soon.
Lexham English Bible
"The disaster of Moab is near to come, and his disaster approaches very quickly.
Literal Translation
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his evil hurries fast.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The destruction off Moab commeth on a pace, and hir fall is at honde.
American Standard Version
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
Bible in Basic English
The fate of Moab is near, and trouble is coming on him very quickly.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
King James Version (1611)
The calamitie of Moab is neere to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The destruction of Moab commeth on a pace, and her fall is at hande.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joanan, and all the leaders of the host that were with him, took all the remnant of the people, whom he had brought back from Ismael, mighty men in war, and the women, and the other property, and the eunuchs, whom they had brought back from Gabaon:
English Revised Version
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The perischyng of Moab is nyy, that it come, and the yuel therof renneth ful swiftli.
Update Bible Version
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.
Webster's Bible Translation
The calamity of Moab [is] near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
New English Translation
Moab's destruction is at hand. Disaster will come on it quickly.
New King James Version
"The calamity of Moab is near at hand, And his affliction comes quickly.
New Living Translation
"Destruction is coming fast for Moab; calamity threatens ominously.
New Life Bible
The trouble of Moab will soon come. His suffering comes in a hurry.
New Revised Standard
The calamity of Moab is near at hand and his doom approaches swiftly.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Near is the doom of Moab, to come, - And, his calamity, hasteth greatly.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity thereof shall come on exceeding swiftly.
Revised Standard Version
The calamity of Moab is near at hand and his affliction hastens apace.
Young's Literal Translation
Near is the calamity of Moab to come, And his affliction hath hasted exceedingly.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The disaster of Moab will soon come, And his calamity has swiftly hastened.

Contextual Overview

14 "How can you say, ‘We are heroes, warriors valiant in battle'? 15 They are ravaging Mo'av, attacking its cities; its best young men go down to be slaughtered," says the king, whose name is Adonai -Tzva'ot. 16 Mo'av's ruin is coming soon, its disaster speeds on swiftly. 17 Pity him, all of you who are near him, all of you who know his name; say, "How the mighty scepter is shattered, that splendid staff!" 18 Descend from your glory, and sit in thirst, daughter living in Divon; for Mo'av's destroyer advances on you; he has destroyed your strongholds. 19 Stand by the road and watch, inhabitant of ‘Aro‘er; ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping, "What is going on?" 20 Mo'av is disgraced, indeed, destroyed. Wail aloud! Shriek! Proclaim it by the Arnon that Mo'av has been laid waste. 21 Judgment has come on the Plain — on Holon, Yachtzah, Mefa‘at, 22 Divon, N'vo, Beit-Diblatayim, 23 Kiryatayim, Beit-Gamul, Beit-M‘on,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

near: Jeremiah 1:12, Deuteronomy 32:35, Isaiah 13:22, Isaiah 16:13, Isaiah 16:14, Ezekiel 12:23, Ezekiel 12:28, 2 Peter 2:3

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 23:13 - Chemosh

Cross-References

Genesis 32:28
The man asked, "What is your name?" and he answered, "Ya‘akov."
Genesis 48:1
Awhile later someone told Yosef that his father was ill. He took with him his two sons, M'nasheh and Efrayim.
Genesis 48:2
Ya‘akov was told, "Here comes your son Yosef." Isra'el gathered his strength and sat up in bed.
Genesis 48:4
saying to me, ‘I will make you fruitful and numerous. I will make of you a group of peoples; and I will give this land to your descendants to possess forever.'
Genesis 48:5
Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Efrayim and M'nasheh will be as much mine as Re'uven and Shim‘on are.
Genesis 48:6
The children born to you after them will be yours, but for purposes of inheritance they are to be counted with their older brothers.
Genesis 48:7
"Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died suddenly, as we were traveling through the land of Kena‘an, while we were still some distance from Efrat; so I buried her there on the way to Efrat (also known as Beit-Lechem)."
Genesis 48:11
Isra'el said to Yosef, "I never expected to see even you again, but God has allowed me to see your children too!"
Genesis 48:13
Then Yosef took them both, Efrayim in his right hand toward Isra'el's left hand and M'nasheh in his left hand toward Isra'el's right hand, and brought them near to him.
Genesis 48:15
Then he blessed Yosef: "The God in whose presence my fathers Avraham and Yitz'chak lived, the God who has been my own shepherd all my life long to this day,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The calamity of Moab [is] near to come,.... As it did come within live years after the destruction of Jerusalem, as observed on

Jeremiah 48:12; out of Josephus:

and his affliction hasteth fast: or, "his evil" z the evil of punishment for his sin; his utter destruction.

z רעתו "malum ejus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Near to come - Twenty-three years elapsed between the fourth year of Jehoiakim, when this prophecy was spoken, and its accomplishment by the invasion of Moab five years after the capture of Jerusalem. So slowly does God’s justice move onward.


 
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