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Jeremiah 48:16

"The end of Moab is near, and she will soon be destroyed.

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.
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!
Complete Jewish Bible
Mo'av's ruin is coming soon, its disaster speeds on swiftly.
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 "You cannot say, ‘We are warriors! We are brave men in battle!' 15 The destroyer of Moab and her towns has arrived. Her best young men will be killed!" says the King, whose name is the Lord All-Powerful. 16 "The end of Moab is near, and she will soon be destroyed. 17 All you who live around Moab, all you who know her, cry for her. Say, ‘The ruler's power is broken; Moab's power and glory are gone.' 18 "You people living in the town of Dibon, come down from your place of honor and sit on the dry ground, because the destroyer of Moab has come against you. And he has destroyed your strong, walled cities. 19 You people living in the town of Aroer, stand next to the road and watch. See the man running away and the woman escaping. Ask them, ‘What happened?' 20 Moab is filled with shame, because she is ruined. Cry, Moab, cry out! Announce at the Arnon River that Moab is destroyed. 21 People on the high plain have been punished. Judgment has come to these towns: Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath; 22 Dibon, Nebo, and Beth Diblathaim; 23 Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul, and Beth Meon;

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
Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob. Your name will now be Israel, because you have wrestled with God and with people, and you have won."
Genesis 48:1
Some time later Joseph learned that his father was very sick, so he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim and went to his father.
Genesis 48:2
When Joseph arrived, someone told Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to see you." Jacob was weak, so he used all his strength and sat up on his bed.
Genesis 48:4
He said to me, ‘I will give you many children. I will make you the father of many peoples, and I will give your descendants this land forever.'
Genesis 48:5
Your two sons, who were born here in Egypt before I came, will be counted as my own sons. Ephraim and Manasseh will be my sons just as Reuben and Simeon are my sons.
Genesis 48:6
But if you have other children, they will be your own, and their land will be part of the land given to Ephraim and Manasseh.
Genesis 48:7
When I came from Northwest Mesopotamia, Rachel died in the land of Canaan, as we were traveling toward Ephrath. This made me very sad, and I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath." (Today Ephrath is Bethlehem.)
Genesis 48:11
He said to Joseph, "I thought I would never see you alive again, and now God has let me see you and also your children."
Genesis 48:13
He put Ephraim on his right side and Manasseh on his left. (So Ephraim was near Israel's left hand, and Manasseh was near Israel's right hand.) Joseph brought the boys close to Israel.
Genesis 48:15
And Israel blessed Joseph and said, "My ancestors Abraham and Isaac served our God, and like a shepherd God has led me all my life.

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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