God’s Word Translation
Jeremiah 48:16
16“Moab’s destruction is coming near; disaster is coming quickly.
Jeremiah 48:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
- New International Version (NIV)“The fall of Moab is at hand; her calamity will come quickly.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The calamity of Moab is near at hand, and his affliction hastens swiftly.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“The calamity of Moab is near at hand, And his affliction comes quickly.
Context of Jeremiah 48:16
14“How can you say, ‘We are soldiers and warriors’? 15The enemy will attack Moab and destroy its cities. Its finest young men will be slaughtered,” declares the king, whose name is the Lord of Armies. “Moab’s destruction is coming near; disaster is coming quickly. 17Mourn over it, all of its neighbors and everyone who knows its fame. Say, ‘Look at the strong staff, the beautiful rod, that is broken!’ 18“People of Dibon, come down from your place of honor and sit on the dry ground. The destroyers of Moab will attack you. They will destroy your fortresses.
Read all of Jeremiah 48Jeremiah 48:16 word by word
קָר֥וֹב אֵיד־מוֹאָ֖ב לָב֑וֹא וְרָ֣עָת֔וֹ מִהֲרָ֖ה מְאֹֽד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:16
- Jeremiah 1:12Then the Lord said to me, “Right. I am watching to make sure that my words come true.”
- Deuteronomy 32:35I will take revenge and be satisfied. In due time their foot will slip, because their day of disaster is near. Their doom is coming quickly.
- Isaiah 13:22Hyenas will howl in Babylon’s strongholds, and jackals will howl in its luxurious palaces. Its time has almost come. Its days will not be extended.
- Isaiah 16:13This is the message that the Lord spoke about Moab in the past.
- Ezekiel 12:23“Tell the people, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: I will put a stop to the use of this proverb. You will no longer quote it in Israel.’ Instead, tell them, ‘The time is near when every vision will come true.
- 2 Peter 2:3In their greed they will use good-sounding arguments to exploit you. The verdict against them from long ago is still in force, and their destruction is not asleep.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:16
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Near 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.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-47Verses 14-47 . The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In reading this long roll of threatenings, and mediating on the terror, it will be of more use to us to keep in view the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments, and to have our hearts possessed with a holy awe of God and of his wrath, than to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-47Moab, one of two nations descended from Abraham’s nephew Lot (Genesis 19:36–38), was the next nation judged in the Lord’s courtroom (compare Isaiah 15–16). Moab’s land was between the Arnon River and the Zered Brook, east of the Dead Sea. At that time, the Moabites felt confident because they were mostly safe from Babylonian military power. However, the Lord found the Moabites to be greedy and cruel, and their worship was violent and indulgent.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. near--to the prophet's eye, though probably twenty-three years elapsed between the utterance of the prophecy in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (2Ki 24:2) and its fulfilment in the fifth year of Nebuchadnezzar.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Jeremiah 48
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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