Jeremiah 48:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hastens quickly.

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  • Isa 13:22 : 22 And the wild beasts of the islands will cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
  • Isa 16:13-14 : 13 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
  • Jer 1:12 : 12 Then the LORD said to me, You have seen well: for I will hasten My word to perform it.
  • Ezek 12:23 : 23 Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb cease, and they shall no longer use it as a proverb in Israel; but say to them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.
  • Ezek 12:28 : 28 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; None of my words shall be postponed any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, says the Lord GOD.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 To me belong vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slip in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 48:13-15
    3 verses
    83%

    13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

    14 How do you say, 'We are mighty and strong men for the war'?

    15 Moab is plundered, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

  • Jer 48:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

    17 All you who are around him, bemoan him; and all you who know his name say, 'How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!'

    18 You daughter who inhabits Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon you, and he shall destroy your strongholds.

  • Jer 48:1-5
    5 verses
    81%

    1 Against Moab, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo, for it is ruined; Kiriathaim is confounded and captured; Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

    2 There shall be no more praise of Moab. In Heshbon they have devised evil against it: 'Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation.' You too shall be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue you.

    3 A voice of crying shall be heard from Horonaim, plundering and great destruction.

    4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have set up a cry.

    5 For on the ascent of Luhith they will go up with continual weeping; for on the descent of Horonaim, the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

  • Jer 48:20-21
    2 verses
    81%

    20 Moab is confounded, for it is broken down. Howl and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is plundered.

    21 Judgment has come upon the plain country: upon Holon, Jahazah, and Mephaath,

  • Jer 48:24-26
    3 verses
    80%

    24 And upon Kerioth, Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

    25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the LORD.

    26 Make him drunk, for he magnified himself against the LORD. Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and also he shall be in derision.

  • Jer 48:36-47
    12 verses
    80%

    36 Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches he has acquired are perished.

    37 For every head shall be bald and every beard clipped; upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

    38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab and in its streets, for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which is no pleasure, says the LORD.

    39 They shall howl, saying, 'How it is broken down! How has Moab turned his back with shame!' So Moab shall be a derision and a dismaying to all those around him.

    40 For thus says the LORD: Behold, he shall fly like an eagle and shall spread his wings over Moab.

    41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab in that day shall be like the heart of a woman in her pangs.

    42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.

    43 Fear, the pit, and the snare shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD.

    44 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who gets out of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says the LORD.

    45 Those who fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force; but a fire shall come out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

    46 Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish, for your sons are taken captive and your daughters captive.

    47 Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

  • Isa 16:6-7
    2 verses
    79%

    6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

    7 Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.

  • Isa 16:11-14
    4 verses
    78%

    11 Therefore my heart shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.

    12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

    13 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

    14 But now the LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

  • Isa 15:1-5
    5 verses
    77%

    1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence.

    2 He has gone up to Bajith and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

    3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets, everyone shall wail, weeping abundantly.

    4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.

    5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee to Zoar, like a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping shall they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

  • Isa 15:8
    76%

    8 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beerelim.

  • Jer 48:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.

    9 Give wings to Moab, that it may flee and get away; for its cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell in them.

  • Jer 48:31
    76%

    31 Therefore I will howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; my heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

  • Jer 48:29
    74%

    29 We have heard the pride of Moab (he is exceedingly proud), his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

  • Amos 2:2
    74%

    2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

  • Zeph 2:9
    74%

    9 Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even a breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

  • Isa 16:4
    74%

    4 Let my outcasts dwell with you, Moab; be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

  • Jer 48:34
    73%

    34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh and to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old; for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

  • Isa 16:2
    73%

    2 For it shall be, that as a wandering bird cast out from the nest, the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

  • Num 21:29
    73%

    29 Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.